Pulse audio notes. to see what version of PA is on your machine pulseaudio --version To build xrdp pulse sink, get the pulse source that most closely matches your version on your machine. Get the source from http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/ run ./configure after extracting. I don't think you need to build it. edit Makefile to point to your pulse source directory. PA always respawning To stop its respawning habit, open /etc/pulse/client.conf, change autospawn = yes to autospawn = no, and set daemon-binary to /bin/true. Make sure these lines are uncommented, like this: autospawn = no daemon-binary = /bin/true