How To: The (almost) Perfect Pulse Audio Setup

**mocha** · July 6th, 2009

Originally Posted by Quarterpipesmoker

Why is the 2. line also commented out? Shouldn't it be uncommented?

Yeah, he made a typo. FWIW, under Jaunty I've found that I need to use SDL_AUDIODRIVER="esd" instead. There is some strange bug with some SDL programs and pulseaudio 0.9.14+ that cause intermittent high CPU usage unless you do this.

**wayward4now** · July 28th, 2009

Originally Posted by durand

Thanks for the 5.1 trick!

It's ALMOST perfect. Sound playback in warzone2100 is choppy. Everything else seems fine, so far. Thanks for the effort. I'm running Karmic + KDE. Ric

**Epaminond** · November 2nd, 2009

I'm running Xubuntu 9.10. The problem was in listening to the music from FF and talking over Skype.
The guide from the first post helped me! Thanks!!!

**cathyn** · January 26th, 2010

This isn't working for me. When I open Pulse Audio Manager, it looks like the Default Source and Default Sink are both still set to alsa devices, which I imagine should be changed, but to what I am unsure. Any suggestions?