Pulseaudio and my sanity

[Jonas Norlander]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Richard S.
Crawford<rscrawford at mossroot.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

The overall suggestion for those using KDE is to not use pulseadio and
uninstall everything related to it. KDE and programs written for KDE
don't use pulsadio and i have only seen problems with it. If I
remember right it was a bug in a package that pulled in some pulseadio
stuff that was not needed and it could mess things up.
What programs do you have that needs pulsadio?

/ Jonas