How to disable Pulse Audio/Correct your sound problems

[Blµb]

Instead of killing it you might wanna consider removing pulseaudio from the startup scripts or even completely deinstalling it.

The best soundsystem currently out there is OSS (no, alsa sucks).
But ubuntu doesn't provide packages for it... so well, you'll have to install it manually

And btw. yes, ArchLinux is awesome
and there are oss pkgs in the AUR

[mealstrom]

Ive got pulseaudio and ubuntu karmic amd_x64.

Ive also ave problem when sound suddenly stop in the game. But
after changing vid_fullscreen 0 / vid_fullscreen 1 (with vid_reload)
sound comes back again.

There is some alsa_plugin_x64-86 that is responsible for sound output.

after this lines in console sound comes back. But i dont know the reason why it stops.

S_Startup: initializing sound output format: 44100Hz, 16 bit, 2 channels...
SndSys_Init: using the ALSA module
SndSys_Init: PCM device is "default"
Sound format: 44100Hz, 2 channels, 16 bits per sample
S_Startup: extra sound time = 3550050

[liolak]

About 4 years ago
I used to be a ubuntu fan.
My sound was working out of the box after every install.
than they started adding features to ubuntu.
than some bugs appeared. (not easily fixable for me)
they added more features
i have more bugs
At a certain point they added pulseaudio.
my audio broke.
i figured how to get my sound back.
than in new ubuntu they changed something again and my sound break again.
i figure how to get my sound back again, but its more dificult and it takes me longer to fix.
than new ubuntu change something about sound again. and it breaks again and its even longer to fix.(two previous fixes dont work)
and there is even more new features
Than i get pissed and i say FUC* YOU ubuntu.
than i install ArchLinux
sounds works out of the box perfectly
there is no feature out of the box
there is also no bug that get in my way out of the box
my computer magically is two time faster than it has ever been
^ for real

sorry if there are people who are very liking ubuntu and my post makes them sad...
but i spent my life in front of a computer and yeah i compare the feeling i got from switching from ubuntu to Arch to the feeling i got when switching from dos to windows 3.1(feels like i can do more stuff )

[paperclips]

About 4 years ago
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At a certain point they added pulseaudio.
--
magically is two time faster than it has ever been
^ for real

Well.. four years.. that's a aeon in open source and that development speed is going to accelerate alot in the next five to ten years (hello india and so on.) and whoopy doo in fifteen twenty years.. hello china.

yes they added pulseaudio, but is it really pulseaudios fault?
I submit to you that it is not.

As Ive stated in another thread, Pulseaudio is not to blame for being badly implemented in certain distros, because its needed, also in the context for awesome stuff to work. Not to mention sound over TCP. :3

Magic, for real? In other words, I hope you be trolling here, in either case, cool story bro and try to get up-to-date with where open source is today.

[liolak]

yeah i was probably semi-trolling, what i wanted to point out is the awesomeness of archlinux that comes from its simplicity.
i have nothing against pulseaudio (or pulse audio implementation in ubuntu) and i dont know why it does not work in my particular use case. im saying its not something that is trivial to fix (maybe it is but than its not easy to find the instructions). sadly it was imposed to me by ubuntu deciders to use it if i wanted to keep that distribution. That, I dont like.

as for the 4 years thing with india and china, i dont understand what you mean.
I dont want to start anything here, all i want to do is to let nexuiz users know that all the problems i had in ubuntu where adressed and solved by switching to archlinux.

[lda17h]

apt-get remove pulseaudio pulseaudio-tools

or something like that

[liolak]

tried that but it than ask to remove ubuntu-desktop :/

[lda17h]

tried that but it than ask to remove ubuntu-desktop :/

ubuntu-desktop is just a meta-package. no harm in removing it.

EDIT: Al least in karmic. No guarantees. apt-get should tell you what other packages it might remove and ask whether it should proceed. If it takes down the whole gnome, etc., better not do it

[paperclips]

nexuiz users know that all the problems i had in ubuntu where adressed and solved by switching to archlinux.

Well.. you have to make it to not autospawn as well. So IMHO its a bit easier to:

- Create/edit the file: "~/.pulse/client.conf" and write "autospawn = no"
- Kill PulseAudio with "killall pulseaudio" in the terminal.
- Play Nexuiz or whatever you fancy at the time being.
- Type "pulseaudio -D" in the terminal if you want PulseAudio back.

Bit simpler than wiping your current os then installing a new distro. But OSS is all about freedom, so if it floats your boat, by all means have at it.
I actually had this problem not other day, rather the other week with an old libopenal thingy and strangely enough recompiling openal and so forth did not solve the problem, hence I had to resort to, to quote a former president, "nucular weapons" to get rid off the mosquito.

[morfar]

Now that 9.10 is out, of course all my fears are true. No sound what so ever.
But thanks to Kyre I found a solution that works for me, 2 computers tested. Start nexuiz with -sndpcm 'hw:0,0'