Did this running UUE 2.8 - (havent tried in straight ubuntu or mint10)

its a a little buggy with the themed cursor…and mute (fn+f10) doesnt work… but works good enough until pulseaudio is resolved of this issue.

Now, for the folks saying Pulseaudio is the wave of the future, blah-blah, I don’t give a crap. PulseAudio currently “works” in my Karmic install (fresh install). But, when I’m doing things that use sound for any extended period of time, it borks up eventually. I’m playing a game (like Tremulous), and the sound will start echo’ing then finally cut out. I’m playing Thief The Dark Project through WINE, the sound is choppy as hell.

So, yes, the work-around as it is right now is still to REMOVE pulseaudio … to REMOVE this layer of crap that’s getting in the way and acting like a premadonna middle-man traffic cop for sound. While the Ubuntu dev’s have done a better job of implementing it in Ubuntu, PulseAudio is still half-baked itself. So, it’s like saying the Car builders did a really good job of installing defective tires on your car. They’re still DEFECTIVE, no matter how well they’re installed.

But, the Ubuntu dev’s are adamant about forcing PulseAudio down our throats, that they’ve made it a royal bitch to remove now. You can’t just adjust some things then remove it. I can’t even figure out HOW to remove it now. When I do so and keep ALSA installed, I still don’t have sound.

Everyone talks about Linux being all about choice, but here they go and cram this thing down our throats. What’s the deal? They tossed Compiz at us, but those that don’t want it can unistall and get rid of it as we see fit. But with PulseAudio, it’s a “you WILL use it or you WON’T have sound” deal.

This really pisses me off, and I think it goes against the nature of Linux.

Cheers.

For sure you can’t just assume it will work out of the box.

Even year later.

I have been using Linux for a very long time(since well before ALSA showed up) and the problems I experienced with PulseAudio, after having researched and following multiple guides on solving various problems related to PulseAudio, left me with the choice of removing PulseAudio or installing Windows.

PulseAudio is yet another project where the theory is sound but the implementation sucks. PulseAudio has failed me on multiple machines with entirely different sound chipsets(including one system that had a CreativeLabs SoundBlaster 16..arguably the PERFECT soundcard) and in multiple distributions(ArchLinux, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, even Slackware). With all the major differences between these distributions and the systems upon which they ran it is clearly an issue that requires immediate solution and at current, since problems have been reported for months and it appears as though no one has put forth effort on actually fixing it, removal of PulseAudio is the only viable course of action.

So again, to those people complaining that this isn’t an actual solution, please remember that people may experience different issues than you and may not have any other choice. Besides, who among you would not consider it solving all Windows-related problems if you were to replace it with Linux?

English: Thank you very much for posting Pulse Audio fix. After weeks of hell with Second Life crashes this fix finally stopped all crashes and freeze ups. This is a life saver fix.

To get round the problem of not being able to login in Intrepid, you need to go into safe mode and execute this command:

sudo rm /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio

Then you will be able to login. I really hope they get this sorted out. There’s been a lot of sound problems for me since Hardy - in fact, I went from Gutsy to Intrepid because Hardy sucked so bad in the sound department. Either pulseaudio has not been implemented correctly in Ubuntu or it’s still at an early stage of development and so it shouldn’t have been included, I don’t know which. Good luck with your sound issues everyone!