Am Freitag, den 19.12.2008, 11:46 -0500 schrieb Sean McNamara: > Hi, > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:59 AM, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > This is regarding pulseaudio on Ubuntu Hardy (Ubuntu 8.04). I have > > noticed that some of my friends, who have moved from Windows recently, > > are encountering problems with pulseaudio and some video clips (online > > as well, e.g. flash). After tyring to sort out these problem for the > > past few weeks, I have decided just to disable to pulseaudio for these > > guys for the time being. > > > > However, I am not sure how to disable pulseaudio while retaining all the > > packages. The idea is to re-enable it in the future if needed. > > > > So far I have removed some pulseaudio packages and the /etc/asound.conf > > file. The packages that are left are: > > gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio libpulse-browse0 libpulse-mainloop-glib0 > > libpulse0 libpulsecore5 pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-utils > > > > I have also made all Preferences->Sound in Gnome to Alsa. > > > > But a pulseaudio process is still running. > > > > So, does anybody have any tip on how to just disable pulseaudio? I admit > > I have not much knowledge about pulseaudio so I might be missing > > something obvious. > > pulseaudio is a daemon. It's a single binary. If you rename the > binary, PulseAudio won't (can't!) run. Rather obvious now that I > mention it, isn't it? > > sudo mv /usr/bin/pulseaudio /usr/bin/pulseaudio-not > > To get it back: > > sudo mv /usr/bin/pulseaudio-not /usr/bin/pulseaudio > (and reboot) > > Now when the session tries to launch /usr/bin/pulseaudio, it will get > a command not found. It's definitely not smart (or stupid) enough to > go searching for the file named something else, so that's that. You > won't even get any GUI errors from this. > > Lacking PulseAudio, you probably won't be any more satisfied with the > performance/features of ALSA's dmix (or worse, a complete lack of > software mixing, if dmix is not enabled), but there are other venues > where you can seek ALSA support now that pulseaudio is disabled -- > that's out of the scope of this ML :) > > The weakest link of Ubuntu 8.04 is their poor and premature > integration of PulseAudio -- and they're going to regret that for > _seven_ years :) But if you are interested in actually solving the > problem, upgrade PulseAudio and ALSA manually to their respective > stable versions. To their credit, Jaunty Jackalope (what is to become > Ubuntu 9.04) is integrating PulseAudio somewhat better than 8.04. > Ubuntu 8.10, unfortunately, has almost identical PulseAudio packages > to 8.04 -- despite the fact that there have been three stable releases > of PulseAudio between 8.04 and 8.10. > > Sean Pulseaudio got some patches for ubuntu 8.10. Sure it isn't the latest version but the situation has improved. The problems with flash are gone. I think that was one of the main problems. > > > > Thanks. > > > > PS: I have asked on Ubuntu's list as well, but I am hoping people here > > know more about the guts of pulseaudio so I might get different insights > > here. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding > > newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just > > filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without > > ever having been read.
