Pulseaudio on Maverick 10.10

[O. Sinclair]

On 13/10/2010 02:49, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 23:27 +0200, Valter Mura wrote:
>> In data martedì 12 ottobre 2010 22:37:52, Hakan Koseoglu ha scritto:
>>
>>> On 12 October 2010 21:30, O. Sinclair<o.sinclair at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> I am sure you are right - the problem is that the Kubuntu install does
>>>> not include it (Ubuntu Gnome and Kubuntu KDE are not the same) and there
>>>> are no settings in System Settings (at least not with my Intel HDA card)
>>>> for Pulseaudio.
>>>
>>> I have it on my upgraded Kubuntu but it's completely broken. 16%, no
>>> audio. 17%? LOTS of it.
>>> 2nd audio card? Detected. Direct audio on both? Nothing comes out of
>>> the USB card but the audio coming out of the laptop speakers are
>>> halved.
>>>
>>> Pre 10.10, I could control the 2.1 speakers built in on the laptop
>>> perfectly one, now that capacity is gone.
>>>
>>> Amarok 1.4 can't play a single file w/o stutters. I haven't attempted
>>> anything more serious, I am thinking of my Ubuntu Studio machine
>>> reinstalled with 10.04 at the moment.
>>>
>>> My verdict: Right now, audio is totally broken.
>>
>> Thank you All,
>>
>> I understand I have to wait for a next release, I'll use pavucontrol and will
>> open a bug for the KMix issue in Kde Bug Tracker.
>>
>> Does anybody know if this is a Kubuntu-related issue or a global one? I'm
>> wondering if other distros have the same problem.
>
> Not with Ubuntu. Rarely do I read of an unsupported sound device, on
> that list, being unsupported or broken. I have 5.1 sound, pro-audio USB
> headset (plus mike) and a web-cam (mike), all properly detected and
> switchable-to on the fly with zero problems. I mean, it is So KeWl!
> That's why I install Ubuntu first. Kubuntu had it borked and apparently
> still does. I love KDE as my desktop. But, it's like "love the sinner,
> but hate the sin". Ric
>
>
Ric, good that you have tinkered around with this for some time. 
However, for most of us it is a first as PulseAudio was not even 
installed on Kubuntu pre 10.10.

And most of us now find that apps like pavucontrol and whatever they are 
called are:
NOT installed by default
NO KDE app resembling them installed by default or as far as I/we 
understand even existing yet.

If you google for KDE Pulseaudio I get a hint that OpenSuse have 
something and someone has created a widget, yet to find out details 
about that.

IN short: for most of us ALSA worked fine, PulseAudio needs tinkering 
"outside KDE or Kubuntu apps" to work.

Sinclair