how to disable pulseaudio

[H.S.]

H.S. wrote:

> 
> BTW, when pulse audio is running, is alsamixer (the console level
> controls) supposed to work? In a laptop running Intrepid, it works, but
> on a computer running Hardy it doesn't. On the hardy machine, I get
> something like this:
> $> alsamixer
> *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
> 
> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Connection refused
> 
> 
> So how does alsamixer related to pulseaudio?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 

On that hardy machine, the exact message I get is this:
~$ alsamixer
ALSA lib control.c:874:(snd_ctl_open_conf) Cannot open shared library
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or
directory

What gives?

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