Pulseaudio and my sanity

[Richard S. Crawford]

I've been fighting with the sound system on my Kubuntu 9.04 machine
for several days now. Right now, the following works:

1. startup/shutdown music
2. Anything using the Xine engine (Amarok, Kaffeine, etc.)

What doesn't work is everything else.

It seems to me that any application that uses ALSA is simply not
getting its sound through. I've tried everything at the "Pulse Audio
Perfect Setup" located at:

http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup

but this did not solve my problem.

It seems to me that the ideal solution would be to dump Pulse Audio
completely, but I'm not sure that can be done safely.

Anyone have any suggestions?



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