pulseaudio for Debian (and Ubuntu) ----------------------------------- By default pulseaudio is configured for using a per-user session daemon (see comments in /etc/default/pulseaudio). If you wish to prevent per- user session daemons from being invoked, remember to edit /etc/pulse/client.conf (or create ~/.pulse/client.conf) and ensure that "autospawn = no" is present and uncommented. PulseAudio's default configuration uses high quality sample rate conversion that may be overly CPU intensive. If PulseAudio's CPU usage is unacceptable on your hardware, please change the resample-method option in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf to either src-linear or trivial. See daemon.conf for more details. Configuration for chroot usage ============================== If you want to use PulseAudio from within a chroot, you need to mount the host /run/udev and /run/dbus folders for the PulseAudio automatic soundcards feature to work. Please see the following bug report for a complete explanation: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649884 -- Luca Capello , Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:07:04 +0100