I don’t know about you but I’m a little narked at Ubuntu forcing the PulseAudio issue. It sucks; big sweaty nut sacks worth of sucks!
I’ve seen a whole bunch of threads saying “don’t remove it, it’ll destroy your soul and rape your nasal passages” but that’s a load of tosh. I’ve removed it on Ubuntu 9.04, 9.10 and Mint Linux Gloria (8) without any issues. Actually, by removing it and going back to ALSA I now have a working sound in Skype, Urban Terror and WormUx where as I never did before.
Here’s what you do:
Fire up Synaptic
Quick Search for Pulse
Remove PulseAudio, it’ll remove a ton of dependencies
Quick Search for Alsa
Install gnome-alsamixer and alsa-oss
Click apply. Reboot your PC and it should still start up with sound. Skype will need to be reconfigured to use ALSA but the games will automatically have audio again.
Tags: 8, 9.04, 9.10, alsa, gloria, karmic, mint, pulseaudio, Remove, Ubuntu
I installed ubuntu 10.04 on my vaio laptop; and most people recommended that as a solution but still no luck. Any ideas you wanna share ?
Can you get me the output from ‘lspci’ and I’ll see what I can help you with?
It’s really dependent on which make and model of sound card you have and whether the kernel drivers are any good for it. I’ve managed to get sound working on nearly all PCs and laptops with some messing around.