[LAU] wine and sound

Susan Cragin susancragin at earthlink.net
Mon Nov 24 08:00:26 EST 2008


>> 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

I got rid of pulseaudio because it manhandled the sound in Dragon NaturallySpeaking. 
However, in Intrepid and Jaunty, pulse is integrated into bootup commands. 
You have to cleanly remove it with the following:

sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio





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