Comments on: ALSA instead of Pulseaudio for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid – a Non-Destructive way.

By: Anonymous

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By: dagurasu

dagurasu — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:18:56 +0000

Wow.. people on so many sites looking all over for the config files starting pulse audio. Maybye my obivous solution only works for kde4, but it’s pathetically obvious.

Move the executable /usr/bin/pulseaudio.. to some safe place where it’s not in any defualt path.

Using kde4 phonon will pick up on pulseaudio’s failure and it seems will use alsa instead. Maybe I’ll get bit when I find some software bypassing phonon that isn’t as smart or something. I don’t know. I’ve only tested it youtube in firefox so far. Oh.. and I’m not using ubuntu, but this problem is somewhat universal and I think this solution may also be.

By: Sherizzle

Sherizzle — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:47:17 +0000

I’ve done everything you mentioned in this guide yet I still don’t have sound. I’m using Compaq Presario CQ40-129TU. My sound card is onboard Intel STAC92xx.

Thanks

By: larva

larva — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:34:17 +0000

Well done, I have managed to get skype workier ng properly on Dell vostro 1500 laptop. It was necessary to change some Volume control settings. Even the internal mic is working now. Very good post!!!

The seting of the Volume Control ( double click the speaker icon on the panel)

1. Go to “Preferences and select all (Master,PCM,Front,Capture,Capture1,Digital,Mux,IE958,….)

2.Go to recording and pull the volume to 3/4, do the same in playback.

in recording leave the mic’s on mute as it is from default.

3.Go to switches and tick
the top two (IEC958, IEC958PCM)

4.Go to Options and select
“Digital Imput Source” to “digital mic”
“imput sources” to “mic”

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By: Orlando

Orlando — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:22:01 +0000

It really works, i tried it on a live cd, so it has to work correctly in the real OS.

Thanks

By: bo

bo — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:30:20 +0000

Ok for me the solution was to set every sound application to use pulseaudio and not to remove it.

Now I can here for every application that uses pulseaudio simulatneously.

I’m only trying to set vlc to use pulseaudio. In the preferences menu of vlc, all it has is setting for every module the correct device, not choosing the module you want.

Ok, thanks for all the effort though!!!

By: bo

bo — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:47:05 +0000

Still no luck! Thanks for all the effort and good luck to your exams!

audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile=chat: Failed to connect: Connection refused

for ALSA, but for OSS the test works.

asoundconf unset-pulseaudio
Usage:
asoundconf is-active
asoundconf get|delete PARAMETER
asoundconf set PARAMETER VALUE
asoundconf list

Convenience macro functions:
asoundconf set-default-card CARD
asoundconf reset-default-card

Maybe I haven’t set right my model in the options snd-hda-intel model, but I cannot find it (for Dell xps and Codec: SigmaTel STAC9228)

I’ll try some forums too. Thanks again mate!

By: idyllictux

idyllictux — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:58:02 +0000

I am done with the guide. You can check it at

http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/ubuntu-904-jaunty-keeping-the-beast-pulseaudio-at-bay/

I think the relevant part is these 2 lines in /etc/pulse/default.pa

load-module module-alsa-sink device=dmix
load-module module-alsa-source device=dsnoop

And those folks previously can’t get the mic work. The solution is found