Proper PulseAudio installation for KUbuntu 10.4 ; jor KUbuntu

[Kevin O'Brien]

On 06/24/2010 04:45 PM, Mark Greenwood wrote:
> In any up to date distro where it is supported (eg Ubuntu 10.04), it 
> will be preinstalled and preconfigured, as it's pretty much a 
> requirement for Gnome these days. Under KDE there is a feeling that 
> it's not required as KDE has Phonon. In my view (and it seems only the 
> Kubuntu devs disagree with me on this) this is a mistake, as Phonon 
> does not provide half the functionality of pulseaudio.
> A lot of work went into KDE over the last 6 months to make it pulseaudio-friendly. However these changes arrived slightly too late for the 10.04 Kubuntu release and there were build issues and packaging problems that would have been too risky to address at the late stage when the problem was identified. Not to mention the fact there appear to be two versions of Phonon upstream. I raised the bug, but I didn't spot it until the 10.04 RC.
>
> Mark
>    
That would be nice. I know that so far I have mostly had to rip out 
every trace of pulseaudio to get sound to work on my Kubuntu boxes, 
which led me to wonder why it was installed in the first place. It sure 
would be nice if I could install Kubuntu and have sound "just work".

Regards,

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