Sean McNamara wrote: > 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) I see. But why reboot? Isn't there an init script to restart pulse audio or something like 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 :) As I mentioned earlier, I have set Gnome to use Alsa for all categories of sounds. I have also removed many pulseaudio packages. At present, all videos and audios appear to be working (I presume alsa is being used now). In fact, on Ubuntu (Hardy and Intrepid) and on Debian (Testing and Unstable), I have Alsa working flawlessly. Installing Pulseaudio in Debian machines (my default OS) had some initial problems but now that is also working quite satisfactorily so far (haven't tried audacity yet). The only problem at present is with pulseaudio in Hardy. > > 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 That is what I realized, albeit a bit late. I have been recommending Ubuntu (Hardy mainly (for its long term support, aka stability), but Intrepid sometimes), but this pulseaudio business had created many problems. The users (novices, from Windows, grandma users, etc.) mainly do only a few things with their computers. One of them is watching video clips online (home videos, youtube and news clips from various websites are the most common). The flash based video was giving me a huge problem. Though I upgraded them from Gutsy to Hardy, Hardy pushed pulseaudio on to them. I now realize that Hardy + pulseaudio is such a mess (and pulseaudio is a must have since it is brought by ubuntu-desktop package). And to think it is a stable version! Regards and Thanks. -- 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.
