Proper PulseAudio installation for KUbuntu 10.4 ; jor KUbuntu

[Clay Weber]

On Thursday, June 24, 2010 09:02:35 pm Kevin O'Brien wrote:
> 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,

Pulse is *NOT* installed in Kubuntu be default.

In my case, I installed it because it allowed audio from flash (hulu, 
Boxee and XBMC) to play through HDMI to my television reliably and 
dependably. no amount of configuration and tweaking and praying 
would get this to work correctly, even after turning off my on-board 
sound card. Nothing Flash based would play over HDMI until I tried 
installing the dreaded pulseaudio. Which was as simple as apt-get 
install pulseaudio. 

Not saying it should or needs to be used by everyone.

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