Alsa/Sound/ in 10.04

[zongo saiba]

On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 01:18 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 02/05/10 22:45, zongo saiba wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 15:02 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> >    
> >> On 05/01/2010 05:13 AM, zongo saiba wrote:
> >>      
> >>> Hi Guys,
> >>>
> >>> I have upgraded my box to 10.04 and the sound is broke now. Plus,
> >>> upgrading sent me back to also 1.0.21. I was on 1.0.22 on 9.10.
> >>> Nevertheless, when I updated my also in 9.10, this command-line
> >>> sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop worked. Now, in 10.04 i get command not
> >>> found. Anyone has any idea why?
> >>>
> >>> Kind Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Zongo
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>        
> >> I had this issue rebuilding an 8.04 for a friend. This helped:
> >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting
> >> Turned out that the sound modules weren't getting loaded, so I used the
> >> suggested: "Do you have the sound modules installed?"
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>      
> > Two things:
> >
> > 1 - I have upgraded to 10.04 and tried to upgrade alsa 1.0.23 -->
> > Every-time I reboot, I freeze. I have checked all the logs and nothing
> > really tells me that there is any issue anywhere. Plus, the Jack is
> > definitely not working anymore under 10.0.4.
> > 2 - I reverted back to Alsa 1.0.22 and now I do not freeze anymore but
> > the Jack is still not working.
> >
> > I would be interested to know if anyone has an issue with freeze and
> > sound; in particular with the Jack under 10.0.4 and Alsa 1.0.23.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> >
> > Zongo
> >    
> 
> I don't know if this will be of any help, but it may.
> 
> I originally installed Lucid Beta2 and then kept upgrading it until I 
> had the final release of 10.04.
> 
> The sound (with Soundblaster) was working perfectly.
> 
> Today, however, I decided that I will install 10.04 as a new install, 
> completely from scratch.
> 
> I had no sound. Alsamixer was installed but it was not behaving as it 
> normally does.
> 
> I spent around 30 minutes stuffing around trying to work out why I had 
> no sound - and then it "hit me": 10.04 by default installed Pulse Audio!
> 
> Got rid of all Pulse Audio rubbish and got my sound back.
> 
> BC
> 
> 
> -- 
> "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
>                                                                      Galileo Galilei
> 
> 
> 

I thought that  taking pulse audio out of Ubuntu was a bad idea. Last
time I did this, I had to reinstall my system as it would only boot to a
terminal. No more X11. The only thing I did was remove .pulse audio. Can
you tell me how you removed pulse audio? 

Kind Regards, 

Zongo