Proper PulseAudio installation for KUbuntu 10.4 ; jor KUbuntu

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 22:18 +0200, Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> On Thursday 24 June 2010, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 20:45 +0100, Mark Greenwood wrote:
> > > You'll find it mostly works, but KDE apps will all use ALSA
> > > routing to talk to pulseaudio, or will not produce any audio at
> > > all. This problem is fixed in Maverick, but is unlikely to be
> > > fixed in Lucid.
> > > 
> > > Basically, pulseaudio under Kubuntu 10.04 is not supported, and
> > > does not work properly.
> > 
> > I thought Lucid was LTS?? Why wouldn't it be "fixed"?
> > <sighs> Ric
> 
> Why would they fix something they don't support?

Forgive me for being dense, but the comment made which I was replying to
was that it would "be fixed in Maverick", which I assume is the next
release?? Ergo, would it not be fixed for the LTS release which is
Lucid? 

One thing is for sure, you cannot remove all of the pulseaudio packages
without major breakage to the system, so that leads me to believe that
there is a measure of support for pulse within the Kubuntu scheme of
things, especially if you cannot remove it. 

It would suit me just fine to remove it completely and rely on alsa
totally. But, as I just mentioned, that apparently is not the case.
Anyone else want some of this? I suggest it be totally fixed or totally
removed. Let's hear it from the choir. :) Ric