Pulseaudio and my sanity

[Jonas Norlander]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Richard S.
Crawford<rscrawford at mossroot.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

Good to here it work now.
As Myriam wrote it's a dependency bug in the kdebase-runtime.

/ Jonas