Ubuntu 8.10 (Ibex) Pulse Audio removal.

[DSCP46]

I totally understand why Ubuntu is pushing for this technology, but also understand that it does hinder the community. I myself have found PulseAudio to be more trouble than its worth, and removed it.

See I like to play my World of Warcraft and Music in the back ground without 10% of my CPU being used by Pulseaudio, when I could be enjoying smoother game play.. Not to mention there was a clear reduction in sound clarity, but this may have been something related to my Soundcard's configuration through Pulseaudio.

First things First. Remove the packages though Bash.

sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install esound

sudo rm /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio (You may want to back this up)

Now this is done you will want check your Gnome Preferences.

Under System -> Preferences -> Sound
Make sure they are all set to 'Autodetect'.
The only one you will have to set manually to ALSA is 'Sound Capture' under 'Audio Conferencing'.
Note at this point Pulseaudio is now nolonger an option under these drop menus.

Under System -> Preferences -> Sessions
Deselected or Remove the Pulseaudio Manager

The last part is one I think a lot of people have missed. Your asoundrc's under your Home Directory are still configured for Pulse.

cd ~
rm .asound* (Again! You may want to back this up)

One this is done your back to ALSA's default configuration.

This worked a charm for me and found all my software picked up Dmix and Dsnoop.
I hope it does wonders for you.. Good Luck.

[wolfen69]

thanks for this, but you will need to change

sudo apt-get remove pulse

to

sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio

cheers.

[DSCP46]

thanks for this, but you will need to change

sudo apt-get remove pulse

to

sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio

cheers.

Thanks for the heads up! Done now.

Cheers

[NeeBone]

This doesnt work without wanting to take ubuntu-desktop with it. Any suggestions?

[theduffman]

This doesnt work without wanting to take ubuntu-desktop with it. Any suggestions?

thats just the metapackage it wont actually remove ubuntu or the desktop
i may try this out, i hate pulse too

[NeeBone]

Sweet! Worked fine.... AFTER I deleted /etc/asound.conf as well as the one in ~/

Sound working flawlessly now. Thanks!

[maninsitu]

Quote is edited by me...see original post!

I totally understand why Ubuntu is pushing for this technology, but also understand that it does hinder the community. I myself have found PulseAudio to be more trouble than its worth, and removed it...I hope it does wonders for you.. Good Luck.

Moderator, these instructions that DSCP46 provided, deserves a Sticky Worked like a charm for me as well. I left my sound preferences on Autodetect and the sound capture on ALSA. I also restarted before attempting anything after all was complete. Also, I could not find .asound* in my home directory, even after displaying hidden files and folders. I assume that it was never there.

Here I thought my problem was with Adobe Flash 10 in Mozilla and a conflict with Intrepid! Newbie to linux and failed Computer Science course in University, so help from good folks like you makes me feel all warm and gushy lol - thanks again!

[VTphilipv]

B-E-A-UTIFUL... maybe interpid won't be as frustrating as I thought!
Now jus webcam support, and I'm ALMOST back to where I was before the upgrade!

[douham]

Hi, I performed DSCP46's instructions, one issue however is that starting the sound preferences in sytem>preferences takes ages to load up and loads my processor right up.

[Connyank]

I totally understand why Ubuntu is pushing for this technology, but also understand that it does hinder the community. I myself have found PulseAudio to be more trouble than its worth, and removed it.

See I like to play my World of Warcraft and Music in the back ground without 10% of my CPU being used by Pulseaudio, when I could be enjoying smoother game play.. Not to mention there was a clear reduction in sound clarity, but this may have been something related to my Soundcard's configuration through Pulseaudio.

First things First. Remove the packages though Bash.

sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install esound

sudo rm /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio (You may want to back this up)

Now this is done you will want check your Gnome Preferences.

Under System -> Preferences -> Sound
Make sure they are all set to 'Autodetect'.
The only one you will have to set manually to ALSA is 'Sound Capture' under 'Audio Conferencing'.
Note at this point Pulseaudio is now nolonger an option under these drop menus.

Under System -> Preferences -> Sessions
Deselected or Remove the Pulseaudio Manager

The last part is one I think a lot of people have missed. Your asoundrc's under your Home Directory are still configured for Pulse.

cd ~
rm .asound* (Again! You may want to back this up)

One this is done your back to ALSA's default configuration.

This worked a charm for me and found all my software picked up Dmix and Dsnoop.
I hope it does wonders for you.. Good Luck.

followed your instructions up to the .asound* and couldn't find any rc files. pulse still being called for at start up and since it ain't there, x won't start.
Any idea which file I should edit to remove the offending script?

xsessionerrors reads:

/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_US.
Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default.
Couldn't exec /usr/bin/pulse-session: No such file or directory


Thanks

jg