[ubuntu-za] Sound & OpenOffice questions

[Brenton Edgar Scott]

SecretCode wrote:
> Ian Whitfield wrote:
>   
>> Hi Guys
>>
>> Two quick questions.....
>>
>> 1) Since doing a fresh install of Kubuntu 9.10 I have no sound. It
>> worked fine with 9.04 and all seems well in the set-up as far as I know.
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> 2) Long time OO user here but I find the version with 9.10 crashes a
>> lot!! Never had this before. I tried up-grading it but no joy. Right now
>> if I try to open a file from OO it crashes totally - no error message -
>> just 'gone'. I can however click on the file in Dolphin and it opens
>> fine. Anyone else having this problem?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> IanW
>>
>>    
>>     
> There seem to be tons of problems with sound in 9.10, based on my 
> reading at ubuntuforums.org. Solutions range from simple edits to 
> alsabase.conf, to entirely removing the ALSA component.
>
> OO however seems not to have many problems. Certainly works fine for me. 
> Are you OK for RAM?
>
> Joe
>
>   
Er, Joe, isn't sound for Ubuntu and Kubuntu provided by the integration 
with PulseAudio? Recently I had issues with my sound cutting out and I 
followed a tutorial to disable it and use ALSA instead. Sound has been 
working better since... (and using less resources). I'm yet to do 
multiple streams properly, but that's probably a simple conf edit away 
anyway.

The Problem is clearly PulseAudio and NOT ALSA.