[Evolution] evolution --disable-sound doesn't

["Mark Knecht" <mknecht controlnet com>]

Hi,
   I did some archive searching but couldn't find anything on this. I'm
running Evolution 1.4.5 under Gentoo. I do a lot of Pro Audio work under
Linux and cannot have applications grabbing sound hardware. Evolution seems
to fail in this respect. Is there anything I can do about it?

   I start Evolution with the --disable-sound command line option. Before
starting there is no sound usage by anything except my Linux audio mixer.

Wizard root # lsof | grep sound
hdspmixer 1639 mark  mem  REG   3,7  792783  442538
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0

When Evolution is running, there is a lot of usage:

Wizard root # lsof | grep sound
hdspmixer 1639 mark  mem  REG   3,7  792783  442538
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0
evolution 1993 mark  mem  REG   3,7  792783  442538
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0
evolution 1999 mark  mem  REG   3,7  792783  442538
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0
evolution 2001 mark  mem  REG   3,7  792783  442538
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0
evolution 2004 mark  mem  REG   3,7  792783  442538
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0
evolution 2005 mark  mem  REG   3,7  792783  442538
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0
evolution 2006 mark  mem  REG   3,7  792783  442538
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0
evolution 2007 mark  mem  REG   3,7  792783  442538
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0
evolution 2008 mark  mem  REG   3,7  792783  442538
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0

Even after Evolution closes there is still usage:

Wizard root #  lsof | grep sound
hdspmixer 1639 mark  mem  REG   3,7  792783  442538
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0
evolution 1999 mark  mem  REG   3,7  792783  442538
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0
evolution 2001 mark  mem  REG   3,7  792783  442538
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0

I have audio applications that won't run (i.e. - they are blocked) until I
close Evolution. How can I get around this?

Thanks,
Mark