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jimmy the saint
June 18th, 2009, 05:49 PM
I'm thinking of upgrading to Jaunty. I am actually mostly happy with Hardy, but PulseAudio is a real pain in my backside. Has PulseAudio improved much or is it still a pain? It's inability to allow firefox and a media player to coexist, for example, is a real pain.

Thanks

MyR
June 18th, 2009, 09:34 PM
Yes it's much improved but it's not perfect.

peace

P.S. you spelled "decaf" wrong in your sig ;]

donkyhotay
June 18th, 2009, 09:40 PM
I went back to hardy when intrepid came out because of the pulseaudio issues. Jaunty has been a nice experience and I haven't had any major problems with pulseaudio (no more then I ever did with ALSA on hardy at least).

Maheriano
June 18th, 2009, 09:51 PM
I find it at least 1.5 times better. Before I had issues which were just unexplainable. Now any issue I have with 9.04 at least I can see the reason it wouldn't work.

markbuntu
June 19th, 2009, 02:52 AM
Pulesaudio is still misconfigured by default in Jaunty. Not so bad as when Hardy first came out though. Maybe by Koala but it doesn't look too good so far.

I still use hardy as my main OS, Jaunty has issues with buggy ALSA drivers and a buggy Pulse0.9.14.

To fix your problems with pulse and hardy go here

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=997506

If you want to see if getting pulse set up is any easier with Jaunty you can look at this

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130384

As you can see, there is not a whole lot of difference.