Guest LilBambi Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 OK, as you all know, I run pure Debian Wheezy. I got sick and tired of having the audio be flaky so I did the following to get rid of Pulse Audio: in a true TTY command line as root: apt-get update apt-get remove pulse audio apt-get alsa base apt-get autoremove reboot apt-get upgrade logged out of root and also in command line: alsamixer and set my settings. Lots more available control now on the Mixer in the system tray area! Yea!!!! And no more stupid Pulse Audio tricks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Yes, I absolutely hate Pulse Audio with a passion. I always disable (or remove if I can) and install the good ole tried and true Alsa. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Me too! I truly gave it a try. But it is just not ready for prime time and I am frustrated that so many distros are using it as the default. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Agreed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Pulse Audio, brought to you by the same lead developer as systemd. Are you frightened yet? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Yes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Piss Audio is just bad. ALSA is always the way to go in GNU/Linux. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Totally agree! I have been around long enough to remember the 'lag' that used to happen when the Alsa audio server first started, but at least it worked right! Unlike Pulse Audio! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Somewhere around here there is a thread where Bruno and I are pulling our hair out trying to find out how to fix some issue I was having with Pulse Audio in some distro that I don't even remember now (not Slackware). We finally gave up. I purged the distro of all things Pulse Audio and enabled ALSA. That was the best solution of all; something which Bruno recommended from the beginning, but I have a hard-headed streak sometimes. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 We finally gave up. I purged the distro of all things Pulse Audio and enabled ALSA. That was the best solution of all; something which Bruno recommended from the beginning, but I have a hard-headed streak sometimes. Boy, does that sound familiar. I don't think you are alone in that around these here parts.I've been fighting with an internet only sound problem off and on for about 4 months. Mostly off, just couldn't get motivated to track it down and whip it. Today was the day, apparently. Looking through my notes, not very organized but they do exist, I found that I had installed Pulse Audio while trying to set up Steam. That is when the entire problem started. I uninstalled everything Pulse and Steam related. No joy. I started looking at multiple versions of flash/flashplugin and thinking here is the problem. I uninstalled the 32 bit flashplugin. Finally remembered that Chrome(ium) and Firefox both ship with internal support for flash and uninstalled the 64 bit flashplugin. Yay! I have sound on the browser again. If I get brave, I might re-install Steam. But I don't know why, I don't use it much. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Well, seems as though you've accomplished something today in spite of yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Yeah, I finally had just had it with Pulse Audio on the computer where I do a lot of audio and video. It's just not worth the aggravation. I will likely do the same with my other two Debian Wheezy installs as well. I can almost guarantee it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Boy, does that sound familiar. I don't think you are alone in that around these here parts. I've been fighting with an internet only sound problem off and on for about 4 months. Mostly off, just couldn't get motivated to track it down and whip it. Today was the day, apparently. Looking through my notes, not very organized but they do exist, I found that I had installed Pulse Audio while trying to set up Steam. That is when the entire problem started. ............................ If I get brave, I might re-install Steam. But I don't know why, I don't use it much. Odd as steam does not require pulseaudio at all (I use steam all the time and do not have pulse installed): comhack@Cerberus ~ % pacman -Qi steamName : steam Version : 1.0.0.47-2 Description : Digital distribution client bootstrap package Architecture : x86_64 URL : http://steampowered.com/ Licenses : custom Groups : None Provides : None Depends On : bash desktop-file-utils hicolor-icon-theme curl dbus freetype2 gdk-pixbuf2 ttf-font zenity lib32-libgl lib32-gcc-libs lib32-libx11 Optional Deps : lib32-ati-dri: for open source ATI driver users lib32-catalyst-utils: for AMD Catalyst users lib32-intel-dri: for open source Intel driver users lib32-nouveau-dri: for Nouveau users lib32-nvidia-utils: for NVIDIA proprietary blob users lib32-flashplugin: for flash video [installed] lib32-alsa-plugins [installed] Required By : None Optional For : None Conflicts With : None Replaces : None Installed Size : 2282.00 KiB Packager : Daniel Wallace Build Date : Tue 22 Apr 2014 08:27:16 PM CDT Install Date : Wed 23 Apr 2014 10:45:44 AM CDT Install Reason : Explicitly installed Install Script : Yes Validated By : Signature Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 I didn't say it was required, just that I installed for some unknown reason when installing Steam. The beginning of all sound related problems = Pulse Audio. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 I didn't say it was required, just that I installed for some unknown reason when installing Steam. The beginning of all sound related problems = Pulse Audio. Ah ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 (edited) Strangely I haven't had major problems with Pulse Audio at all in any mainstream distros I've installed (like Mint.) With Arch you just use ALSA anyway - although I had trouble there even with ALSA, because my video card kept trying to install a HD driver that stepped on the basic sound module in my old PC. As far as Steam goes, I have that on a Windows machine. Edited May 20, 2014 by raymac46 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 See! I knew there was at least one person in the world who had no issues with Pulse Audio. Me too... Steam on MS Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt.Crow Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 howto rm pulse.? Without wrecking anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 What Distro are you using? I gave instructions at the beginning of this topic for Debian/apt-get based systems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 On Arch I use pacman to find all installed pulse audio files and dependencies. Then deleted them. Easy peasy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt.Crow Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 I'm on Squeeze. Will it work the same as on Wheezy. prolly a skewpid ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt.Crow Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 (edited) I get all audio except Skype echo/test service . No sound. I can raise the Alsa mixer , capture +1+ 2 no adjustment.input source ditto head.. the same.. Edited May 20, 2014 by Capt.Crow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Maybe use your package manager to remove Skype and then reinstall Skype. Skype is not as smart as it used to be, or as smart as it thinks it is. Maybe it didn't get the message about the audio server change? Don't forget to delete any dot files/folders related to Skype in your home after removing Skype. You might even be able to close Skype fully and remove the dot files/folders and reopen Skype and get it to re-read your system for audio. It's a thought... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Skye can and does work just fine with alsa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt.Crow Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Got it working now .Thanks for the help 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt.Crow Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 Its failed again . with no reprieve . Pulseaudio is gone . Still have Ear candy.. Had a look at that . Alsa shows up there as does Skype. I've set both to voip . Still no sound. But Kde 4.......? {not sure here} plays the Skype sounds when clicked on in their folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 It's a setting somewhere... Maybe remove Skype and Ear candy via apt-get or other package manager as appropriate and then reinstall them now that you are using only Alsa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Skype https://wiki.debian.org/skype http://juljas.net/linux/skype/ The above may or may not be illuminating. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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