Bug#585555: Please don't set the default audio output in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:49:41PM +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
> Wouldn't it be a better solution to try to troubleshoot why it takes so
> long for the pa driver to detect that PA is not installed?

Indeed, particularly since I don't have that issue when I do
killall pulseaudio
chmod a-x /usr/bin/pulseaudio
mplayer -ao pulse,
I get immediate fallback to OSS without any noticeable delay.
Actually I only get a delay when the pulseaudio "server" must be
started.