On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 10:57:52PM +0100, David Kuehling via Dng wrote:
> However, I think the proper fix, as pointed out by Ken, is
> to edit
>
> /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf
>
> and comment out the "autospawn=no" line. This is the solution that I'm
> currently using on all my Devuan Beowulf systems without encountering
> any issues. I wonder why Devuan isn't distributing a patched version of
> pulseaudio that has this configured correctly by default?

Maybe because not all users of devuan want pulseaudio to be spawned by
default on their systems. Also spawning pulseaudio by default would
break the proposed fix for bug 496:

<https://bugs.devuan.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=496>

Greg


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