How to disable Pulse Audio/Correct your sound problems

[Lee_Stricklin]

For some reason Ubuntu 8.04 and later come with this Pulse Audio pain in the ass. I'm not going to sit here and rip on it because it's not a bad little sound device, it's just improperly used. Anyway I was googling around the internet and found a website (see below) that tells you the command needed to disable it. Any time you want pulse audio disabled just enter "killall -9 pulseaudio" and that should correct everything. If you find having Pulse Audio disabled fixes your problems then I would suggest having that command execute at start up by opening your preferences, clicking "Start Up Applications" and adding the command in there.

Here's the site I got this off of:

http://tycheent.wordpress.com/2009/03/3 ... ulseaudio/

[paperclips]

Well, imho, the ubuntu jaunty release is way much better than intrepid, overall and especially the pulseaudio implementation bit. try it!

[morfar]

Yeah, 9.04 worked better in the beginning. But now my audio stops after a while
So I need to kill pulseaudio anyway... how the f can I remove this piece of shit? I have not seen any easy guide for it yet.

[paperclips]

Yeah, 9.04 worked better in the beginning. But now my audio stops after a while
So I need to kill pulseaudio anyway... how the f can I remove this piece of shit? I have not seen any easy guide for it yet.

Try this one.

[morfar]

Yeah, 9.04 worked better in the beginning. But now my audio stops after a while
So I need to kill pulseaudio anyway... how the f can I remove this piece of shit? I have not seen any easy guide for it yet.

Try this one.

Why must it be so damn complicated and hacky? Is there any good distribution that don't come with pulseaudio?

[alpha]

Yeah, 9.04 worked better in the beginning. But now my audio stops after a while
So I need to kill pulseaudio anyway... how the f can I remove this piece of shit? I have not seen any easy guide for it yet.

Try this one.

Why must it be so damn complicated and hacky? Is there any good distribution that don't come with pulseaudio?

gentoo

[paperclips]

thats not hacky, thats look 'n paste.

You can however do it the dirty quick way.

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sudo mv /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio ~/
killall pulseaudio
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install esound

Satisfaction not guaranteed.

gentoo

fattiestrolling.

[Alien]

Yeah, 9.04 worked better in the beginning. But now my audio stops after a while
So I need to kill pulseaudio anyway... how the f can I remove this piece of shit? I have not seen any easy guide for it yet.

Try this one.

Why must it be so damn complicated and hacky? Is there any good distribution that don't come with pulseaudio?

Slackware of course. Just KISS.

[Lee_Stricklin]

I got pulseaudio to cooperate (sort of) on fresh install of Ubuntu. What I did was kill it, then set my game's sound preferences (I got mine set to 7.1 and 48KHz) and then re-enabled it and all my sound worked correctly after that.

[Mr. Bougo]

Was nexuiz running when you re-enabled it? :p


Alien> arch is KISS too :p