Viewing posts from: December, 2009

2009
12
Dec

Replace Pulse Audio with ALSA

Posted by 7sins|, |4 Comments


Replace Pulse Audio with ALSA

With the launch of Karmic Koala, the Ubuntu developers have forced the Pulse Audio down our throat. The net result being a lot of my apps have broken their voice.

For instance just after I upgraded to Karmic, and tried to play my Music collection on Exaile, Rhythmbox, Banshee I saw a strange thing.
The first song would play perfectly fine. Next the OSD would show that the second song has started playing. The progress bar would also confirm that. But there was NO SOUND. It was dead silent. No amount of tinkering solved the problem.

A little searching also suggested that that Pulse Audio was the culprit.

So the only option was to ditch Pulse Audio in favour of ALSA.

The following steps show how to do it :
Read the full article…