Ubuntu disabling artsd

[Nithin]

artsd is continuously using 3-5% of cpu and I dont need sound. I removed arts package and killed artsd. But it respawns. What do I do?


Also I see tens of modules loaded and would like to not load a few like snd_core. Is there a config file for this? /etc/modules doesn't have these.

Thanks,
N.

 

[drag]

Open up kcontrol (kde configuration console) and go to audio and disable it from there.


Otherwise:
sudo chmod -x `which artsd`

That should make it non-executable. After you kill it it shouldn't respawn. When you do a update that includes artsd it will probably be made executable again, which you then just make it non-executable.

But you say you uninstalled 'artsd'? Maybe that was a virtual package? Not sure what is going on.

If you removed the package (or made it non-execuatable) and it's keeping on respawning after the actual program is gone.. Log out, switch to the console, log in there and killall artsd a few times. Maybe killall -9 artsd for extra killing goodness.

Also go:
ps aux|grep yourusername

After a while of logging out all the stuff that was started when you were in Gnome or kde or whatever should die off after about 5 minutes or so. If not then killall progname or kill pidnumber

AFter it's realy and truly dead then it shouldn't be a problem anymore.

 

[Nithin]

thanks drag. i package i uninstalled was arts. probably the artsd file is not from there. its still there in /usr/bin.
hmm looks like it might be part of the libarts1c2a package. but i cant remove it because a lot of packages depend on it. crap!

what about modules? where can i disable them from loading?

 

[drag]

Then just chmod -x /usr/bin/artsd or disable it form the kde control panel. It's not to hard to fix. The thing about artsd is that it's tied into the kde library stuff.. So every time you launch a KDE app it will try to start artsd!

what about modules? where can i disable them from loading?

Like kernel modules?

Well if they are causing problems then you 'blacklist' them so that they don't get loaded automaticly. You simply add their name to the /etc/hotplug/blacklist file.

Be carefull though, some modules will provide functionality that you may not immediately need or notice. For instance scsi stuff will be needed if your running a sata controller usually, but it may not be obvious. Other times you may run into were you can't use a usb device automaticly because of some module that isn't loading up. Most of the time it's safe though.