On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@woh.rr.com> wrote:

rosea grammostola wrote:

Is pulseaudio useful? or can I remove it?

I've only used Pulseaudio in the context of a review of media players for Ubuntu 8.04. At that time and for that purpose it performed fine, but I don't know how it interoperates with JACK or other servers. AFAIK you can remove it, but you'll probably find that it's a dependency for many other apps. Boo-hiss for that factor. :(

I'm learmning about Ubuntu 8.10 now as a matter of necessity. So far so good, but I've yet to muck about with the Pulseaudio stuff. Nothing against the software itself, but I don't need it, don't want it, and would like to cleanly remove it.

Best,

dp

+1, I've the feeling that pulseaudio is making the management of sound on Ubuntu unnecessarily complex...

But about the wine problem... I've also an onboard intel soundcard next to my maudio audiophile pci... Could that be the cause of the problem?