Pulseaudio on Maverick 10.10

[Basil Chupin]

On 13/10/2010 15:41, O. Sinclair wrote:

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> 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.
>    

Hear, hear!

The first thing I do is to get rid of pulseaudio to get my sound 
working, and install alsamixergui - then make sure that all the right 
channels are active.

But then, as with Ric, I know what to do, but take a newbie installing 
Ubuntu/Kubuntu for the first time - and what do you have?

This abomination called pulse audio and getting video working properly 
seem to be the 2 most complained about subjects.

"Why is this so?!", as Professor Sumner Miller used to ask on one of our 
TV science shows (here in OZ) years ago?

BC

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