Getting rid of PulseAudio

Found an excellent guide (in Swedish) to remove PulseAudio. Basically do this:

alsamixer
Check that your system uses Pulseaudio (it says clearly by Card and Chip) in the top left corner.

sudo rm /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio
killall pulseaudio
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install esound

Then run:
alsamixer
And check that it is not using PulseAudio any longer.

I will report after thorough testing if it works fine.

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3 Responses to “Getting rid of PulseAudio”

  1. john Says:
    December 8, 2008 at 12:26 pm | Reply

    Thanks it worked great!!!!

  2. ubuntu_new Says:
    March 25, 2009 at 3:36 pm | Reply

    Yes, after reading tens of tutorial on how to remove pulse, this actually worked ! The most annoying app. misbehaving with pulse is Skype, which I use daily… so pulse had to go :)

    Thanks again!

  3. Pirsey Says:
    April 22, 2009 at 6:38 am | Reply

    After reading through the article, I feel that I really need more information on the topic. Can you share some resources please?

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