No Sound :(

[Mark]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I have xp on the other hard drive and sound works so I guess it's almost
> got to be a software problem.            Doug
>
Okay, I had a similar problem, and here's exactly what (Synaptic says) I did:

Commit Log for Wed Oct 20 21:08:39 2010

Removed the following packages:
indicator-sound
libcanberra-pulse
pulseaudio
pulseaudio-esound-compat
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
pulseaudio-module-gconf
pulseaudio-module-x11
ubuntu-desktop

Upgraded the following packages:
libpulse-browse0 (1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21) to
1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1
libpulse-mainloop-glib0
(1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21) to
1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1
libpulse0 (1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21) to
1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1
pulseaudio-utils (1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21) to
1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1

Commit Log for Wed Oct 20 21:10:55 2010

Installed the following packages:
alsamixergui (0.9.0rc2-1-9)
libfltk1.1 (1.1.10-2)

Reinstalled the following packages:
alsa-base (1.0.23+dfsg-1ubuntu4)
alsa-utils (1.0.23-2ubuntu3)

My sound works fine, sans pulse.  YMMV.

I did also install a perl script that Sonal wrote that provide
keybaord soundkeys control over volume, something that was completely
missing after I dumped pulse audio, and the alsa mixer and alsa volume
control apps just didn't do it for me - they work, but no generic
control.

Details here--
http://sonalsantan.blogspot.com/2010/10/volume-keys-without-pulseaudio-on.html

Keep us informed - should be interesting.

Mark