2008-10-30, 08:57
I'm ashamed to say that I added "killall pulseaudio" to my gnome session's startup commands. Every so slightly less ridiculous than your solution, although just as effective. There's no way to actually disable it inside of ubuntu; they integrated it everywhere. Even if you set everything not to use it, audio will be delayed and trick play broken in XBMC. Pulseaudio needs to be terminated with prejudice.