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pulseaudio package

  1. Bug #178442
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 178442

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Stefan Metzger (kosh-unearth) wrote : Re: Pulseaudio fails to initialize Audiophile 2496

I can confirm this bug. After upgrading from Gutsy to Hardy sound output stopped working on my M2496 card due to pulseaudio being used as soundserver. This is quite annoying. I have to kill pulseaudio every time I log in to be able to use the soundcard. In fairness, I have not tried any of the above mentioned workarounds to get pulseaudio to work together with the Delta soundcard since I am happy with the way it works when pulseaudio is deactivated.

The file /etc/default/pulseaudio suggests to disable ESD in System->Preferences->Sound to prevent pulseaudio from being loaded by GNOME, which works for me but of course disables all system sounds. Still I think this is nicer than having to kill the process after it has been loaded already.