I found Pulseaudio to be a bit of a pain, it would constantly sit using 100% CPU and seemed to mess up sound constantly. I decided to purge it from my system and stick with plain ALSA.
Removing [OSBOLETE]
NB This is obsolete, seems PulseAudio is used for most things these days.
I found the following recent thread on audio problems with very useful input from the legendary Neddyseagoon on how to remove Pulseaudio.
Check what currently depends on pulseaudio
- snippet.bash
equery d pulseaudio
Add USE=-pulseaudio to your /etc/portage/make.conf. Make a backup of the pulseaudio install, just in case you want to reinstall it
- snippet.bash
quickpkg pulseaudio # Restore with emerge -K1av pulseaudio
Now re-emerge @world with the new USE-flags…
- snippet.bash
emerge -uDNav @world
Finally remove pulseaudio…
- snippet.bash
emerge -c pulseaudio
