Karmic Koala brief rant/rave and sound advice...literally.

[solwic]

How do I use my laptops sound media keys (up, down, mute) and also my soundlevel in the taskbar have disappeared. Do you know how I can get those back? Removing pulsaaudio did fix all my sound playback problems though!

You can remove pulse audio? How the #$@! do you do that?!?!?!

[Ghost|BTFH]

You can remove pulse audio? How the #$@! do you do that?!?!?!

Read the first posting...



Cheers,
Ghost|BTFH

[solwic]

Read the first posting...



Cheers,
Ghost|BTFH

Ahhh! Well, the startup sound was crackling and messed up...but after boot, the sound is freaking amazing!

Thanks for the tip! (Although, I couldn't find ESD or alsa-tools in synaptic....)

[HappyFeet]

Ahhh! Well, the startup sound was crackling and messed up...but after boot, the sound is freaking amazing!

Thanks for the tip! (Although, I couldn't find ESD or alsa-tools in synaptic....)

ESD is esound. It is in synaptic.

[solwic]

ESD is esound. It is in synaptic.

I saw esound. Didn't know it was the same. Should I go ahead and remove it?

[3rdalbum]

First, simply go into Synaptic Package Manager (System - Administration - Synaptic Package Manager for those of you who are new) and do a search for pulseaudio. From this search, find PulseAudio and PulseAudio-utils and mark both for removal...

You're now running a system without cracks, pops, hisses, lagging sound, lockups, audio mysteriously dropping out from one program but not another, etc etc etc.

For sound cards that have well-written drivers or have been updated to fix the underlying issues exposed by Pulseaudio, you'll gain nothing and you'll lose the ability to properly control which sound devices get used by which programs; you'll also lose the individual volume controls on applications.

Don't get people into the habit of ripping out Pulseaudio every time. For a lot of people it works well out-of-the-box. For even more people, it works well with a little bit of configuration (which can be done without an extra download in Karmic). For even more people, it works well with a sound driver update.

[nico.vanrensburg]

um. i don't want do be the odd one out here, but...removing alsa and reinstalling pulse solved all of my problems. it might be heavier on resources but it's picking up the subwoofer on my lenovo without a problem. and being able to control individual application's volume is handy..

watcha gonna do

[jackmetal]

I may try removing pulse and see if alsa works for me. Will alsa pick up my 7.1 system without doing any configuration, or is there something I'll probably need to edit for it to work?

Right now, pulse only outputs sound to my front speakers and nothing from any of the others (although I have tried editing the config file, picking different drivers, etc..) If alsa gets my 7.1 back, I'll be VERY happy with Karmic (other than the Remote Desktop/Compiz bug that's "STILL" around).

[zampes]

No thank-you for Ghost|BTFH; the only thing this has gotten me is absolutely NO sound and no recognition of my sound card by the system.
Geez, don't go around telling people to do stuff that doesn't work at all.

[Nick Brohman]

Thanks for the tip as it has restored my Skype volume.

Mine disappeared after adding Ubuntu Restricted.

I've only had 9.10 for just under 2 hours & am starting to like it...now where has the volume Control gone...manana, manana...

Cheers...Nicko