On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:32 PM, deloptes <deloptes@...> wrote: > Hi all, > I have been playing recently with mobile phone and pulseaudio. The goal is > to be able to use HSP or A2DP with the computer. > I choose for simplicity A2DP first. With my older phone it works pretty > straight forward > Connect the phone, set A2DP profile in pavucontrol. I had to tell pulseaudio > source and sink the first time, but it then "remembered" the setup and now > each time I connect it does this. So at the end it is possible to play > music from the phone on the PC. > > My only problem is that when connect or disconnect kmix is going crazy and > abuses one of the CPUs. what happens with alsamixer and alsamixergui? i suspect you have a loop on your hands where pulseaudio has taken control without your consent or knowledge of the ALSA devices. pulseaudio may be interfering, i've had to kill pavucontrol, and pulseaudio, then *finally* the audio programs were able to wrestle control of /dev/snd/* away from pulseaudio, and things went to normal. restarted pavucontrol and it was fine. i suspect this is *nothing to do with* tde, and everything to do with pulseaudio being a pile of shit. l.