Comments on: Ubuntu: Make ALSA default instead of PulseAudio

By: Joepete

Joepete — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:22:43 +0000

Between sound and issues and the terrible interface that Unity is, one has to wonder if the Ubuntu development effort all started drinking from the wrong Kool-Aid. It’s sadly embarrassing for those of us who have been encouraging the adoption of Ubuntu to be saddled with a release that is like stepping back 12 years.

By: Does'nt matter

Does'nt matter — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:06:03 +0000

Thank you so much! A ugly KDE- Upgrade installs me Pulseaudio and I hated it. So it’s wonderful.

Thank you!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:45:30 +0000

I’m absolutely appalled to see Xubuntu 11.10 with sound NOT working property out of the box. At one point the sound went silent. Mplayer looked like it was playing, but no sound. Same thing with youtube videos in Chrome. Tried every mixer setting. Tried rebooting. Tried deleting pulse audio settings files. It worked for a few minutes, but then it seemed that an app (mplayer2 + Chrome playing at the same time?) caused it to become broken with no way of fixing it. Angry and disappointed, I yet again uninstalled pulseaudio. I can not *believe* that the decision makers at Ubuntu are letting this all happen. Their attitude should be to ban pulseaudio until it’s properly working, and to tell the people defending it, that they are PLAIN WRONG – DEAD SIMPLE. There are NO EXCUSES FOR THIS ! Consider yourself all in the penalty box, PA developers!

By: Varazir

Varazir — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:49:31 +0000

I ment Passthrough

By: Varazir

Varazir — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:08:03 +0000

Thanks, I like the option just disable Pulseadio.
Far as I know Pulsadio dose not support digital audio pass through. Until then I’ll disable it

@Cris, tried to delete ~/.pulse/client.conf ?

By: ubuntufreak

ubuntufreak — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:40:51 +0000

Hi Folks,

As many of you guys, I encountered problems trying to run Pulseaudio along with my Soundcard. Uninstalling Pulseaudio related files fixed my problems but I did not quite like the applet solution. The missing hover function in Nautilus an other goodies were really missing.

So i stumbled upon this neat little applet, which works just great and provides all usual futures people are used to. You simply can add the PPA and voilà, it all works just fine. The icon is downloadable from here: http://software.flogisoft.com/alsa-tray/en/

Glad if I helped :D

Regards,

ubuntufreak

By: Cris

Cris — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:44:31 +0000

Hi all

I tried to use the kill command for pulseaudio as suggested above
echo autospawn = no|tee -a ~/.pulse/client.conf && killall pulseaudio

How can I reverse this as the alsa setup did not really work for me? Please could anyone help. Pulseaudio no longer starts properly and it stops often. Any help would be appreciated.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:31:47 +0000

VLC 1.1.10 and 1.1.11 in Ubuntu 10.04 have an audio lag delay of about 250ms. Instead of removing Pulse Audio, you could go into VLC’s preferences and change the “Default” audio output module to “ALSA” or “OSS”. This prevents dependency problems that might occur if Pulse Audio is removed.

By: david

david — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:56:49 +0000

Pulse Audio is smooth and nice dealing with the most common apps around, but people start complaining when in need of realtime audio editing or multitrack recording. That’s the point, alsa drivers are still faster and the latency you get from them is the lowest you can aim at. There are no other ways at the moment !

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 23:32:20 +0000

I have tried may times to get Pulse Audio to work correctly, and have failed. Every distribution that uses it has the same problem. Multichannel sound simply refuses to work correctly, and if you can get all the channels to work, then recording from it fails. Many computers today come with HDA audio and Pulse Audio doesn’t seem to play nicely with it at all. Ubuntu 10.04 and up, broken. Removing it results in no way to control your sound under Gnome since ubuntu removed the ALSA applet for the panel and replaced it with a Pulse Audio only one. Using xfce-mixer instead is a possibility, does work, but is a poor band-aid solution to the problem. In Kubuntu (or KDE under Ubuntu), removing pulse audio will allow Kmix to properly see ALL the channels in the sound card and properly allow you to adjust each one by itself !!! In other distros this seems to not work. I’ve played around with linux since 1997 and am quite tired of having to “fix” things all the time. I wish the various distros would dump Pulse Audio and make ALSA more robust instead, since alsa HAS worked correctly for some time, and Pulse Audio uses it anyway, so what gives, why have two things doing the same thing ?? Oh well.