Pulseaudio and my sanity

[Richard S. Crawford]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Jonas Norlander<jonorland at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

I uninstalled PulseAudio as per your suggestion, and now everything
works fine. Thanks for the tip! Whose idea was it to bundle PulseAudio
with KDE4 anyway?

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