Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> Hi!
>
> I've got a couple of sound issues which I suspect might be linked to
> Pulseaudio.
>
> I'd like to temporarily disable Pulseaudio and see if I experience those
> issues with ALSA alone.
>
> It seems that Pulseaudio is part of the %desktop-services.
> However it's not listed in
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> sudo herd status
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> for me.  Any idea why?
>
> Killing the pulseaudio process manually results in it being
> automatically started.  I suspect that's expected from shepherd.
>
> Any clue how to kill it for real?

Pulseaudio is designed to be started on demand by any application
attempting to use it, so it cannot really be disabled AFAIK...

You could try to build the application you want to test without
Pulseaudio support, and run it after killing the pulseaudio daemon.