Alsa/Pulseaudio conflicts

[Gilles Casse]

Hello,

This has been seen on the current Ubuntu Hardy pre-release, but is 
probably true with other pulseaudio based systems.

After the Ubuntu speech dispatcher package has been installed (currently 
system-wide), there is no sound at next login: sd uses alsa which 
prevents a correct start of the user's pulseaudio session (pa 0.9.10).

I guess that distros could provide a new sd package for avoiding this 
conflict, e.g. :

- starting sd with its alsa audio output in the user session, plus a 
specific asoundrc file (pulseaudio perfect setup)
- starting sd with its pulse audio output in the user session.

or other options (e.g. stop the pulseaudio daemon,...).

What would be your recommendations for the forthcoming users wishing to 
install sd in a pulseaudio based system?

Best regards,

Gilles