How to remove PulseAudio and fix sound with ALSA and ESound

[Jonas thomas]

Thanks..

[Tankerdog2002]

deMarshall,

Open synaptic.

See if you have [gstreamer], [mpeg123-esd], and [libalsaplayer] installed.

[Jonas thomas]

I replaced pulse with esound per this thread and I've been very happy with the result. The only thing is that it seems my SDL games are working..
Does anyone have any thoughts on this??

[demarshall]

deMarshall,

Open synaptic.

See if you have [gstreamer], [mpeg123-esd], and [libalsaplayer] installed.

Thanks Tankerdog2002. I installed those files as well as Shiretoko (a version of Firefox 3.5.3) and everything seems to be working now.

[coldReactive]

Just remember that pulseaudio is more integrated in Ubuntu 9.10, it may not be as easily replaced.

[Jonas thomas]

Just remember that pulseaudio is more integrated in Ubuntu 9.10, it may not be as easily replaced.

I'm still on 8.04, Isn't wanting to obliterate pulse less of an issue because it basically been properly configured to work out of the box,err..distro cd... yah know what I mean..

Any thoughts on the SDL and Esound??

[coldReactive]

I'm still on 8.04, Isn't wanting to obliterate pulse less of an issue because it basically been properly configured to work out of the box,err..distro cd... yah know what I mean..

For best sound on my netbook (Toshiba nb205) I need to replace the sound system with OSS sadly.

[AlexanderDGreat]

art@systema:~$ sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
pulseaudio ubuntu-desktop
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1880kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n

- ok now that's scary, REMOVE ubuntu-desktop? I really want to try ALSA and Esound coz I want to improve "maybe" the sound quality of my HDA Intel sound card, but I can't because of removing ubuntu-desktop with pulseaudio, anyone can comment?