Pulseaudio on Maverick 10.10

[O. Sinclair]

On 14/10/2010 19:58, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
> On 13 October 2010 07:39, Ric Moore<wayward4now at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Joe Lunchbucket crying into his suds, weeping uncontrollably on a bar
>> stool.
> If I was a newbie I could understand this mess... Alas...
>
> They really screwed this one up...
>
> I've powered up my Kubuntu 10.10 with Ubuntustudio metapackages
> loaded, upgraded from a working set of kubuntu 10.04 + ubuntustudio
> packages where my MAudio card would be recognised perfectly nicely...
>
> Pulseaudio? Dummy. sudo su - , then check alsamixer? The MAudio card
> is there for all its glory. Pulseaudio can't even detect the card,
> pavucontrol's the configuration window is empty...
>
> What a mess.. At least they could have attempted NOT TO BREAK IT!.
>
>> I haven't seen one complaint for a long time on the Ubuntu list. Just
>> here.
> Probably everyone else has figured out how to remove this piece of
> crap and get on with it...
>
> I just had to cancel a recording evening because of this PoS and I'm
> really not happy. I'm going to reinstall this machine with Kubuntu
> 10.04 + UbuntuStudio audio + video metapackages and bring it back to a
> working state.
>
why not just uninstall Pulseaudio? Then ALSA should "kick in" and take 
over? Have toyed with the idea myself but do not have the need although 
I see no advantage of PA over ALSA at all myself