Alsa/Sound/ in 10.04

[zongo saiba]

On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 17:23 +0100, zongo saiba wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 01:18 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> > On 02/05/10 22:45, zongo saiba wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 15:02 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> > >    
> > >> On 05/01/2010 05:13 AM, zongo saiba wrote:
> > >>      
> > >>> Hi Guys,
> > >>>
> > >>> I have upgraded my box to 10.04 and the sound is broke now. Plus,
> > >>> upgrading sent me back to also 1.0.21. I was on 1.0.22 on 9.10.
> > >>> Nevertheless, when I updated my also in 9.10, this command-line
> > >>> sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop worked. Now, in 10.04 i get command not
> > >>> found. Anyone has any idea why?
> > >>>
> > >>> Kind Regards,
> > >>>
> > >>> Zongo
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>        
> > >> I had this issue rebuilding an 8.04 for a friend. This helped:
> > >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting
> > >> Turned out that the sound modules weren't getting loaded, so I used the
> > >> suggested: "Do you have the sound modules installed?"
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>      
> > > Two things:
> > >
> > > 1 - I have upgraded to 10.04 and tried to upgrade alsa 1.0.23 -->
> > > Every-time I reboot, I freeze. I have checked all the logs and nothing
> > > really tells me that there is any issue anywhere. Plus, the Jack is
> > > definitely not working anymore under 10.0.4.
> > > 2 - I reverted back to Alsa 1.0.22 and now I do not freeze anymore but
> > > the Jack is still not working.
> > >
> > > I would be interested to know if anyone has an issue with freeze and
> > > sound; in particular with the Jack under 10.0.4 and Alsa 1.0.23.
> > >
> > > Kind Regards,
> > >
> > > Zongo
> > >    
> > 
> > I don't know if this will be of any help, but it may.
> > 
> > I originally installed Lucid Beta2 and then kept upgrading it until I 
> > had the final release of 10.04.
> > 
> > The sound (with Soundblaster) was working perfectly.
> > 
> > Today, however, I decided that I will install 10.04 as a new install, 
> > completely from scratch.
> > 
> > I had no sound. Alsamixer was installed but it was not behaving as it 
> > normally does.
> > 
> > I spent around 30 minutes stuffing around trying to work out why I had 
> > no sound - and then it "hit me": 10.04 by default installed Pulse Audio!
> > 
> > Got rid of all Pulse Audio rubbish and got my sound back.
> > 
> > BC
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
> >                                                                      Galileo Galilei
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> I thought that  taking pulse audio out of Ubuntu was a bad idea. Last
> time I did this, I had to reinstall my system as it would only boot to a
> terminal. No more X11. The only thing I did was remove .pulse audio. Can
> you tell me how you removed pulse audio? 
> 
> Kind Regards, 
> 
> Zongo
> 

I have started launching the command-line to remove pulse audio and here
is a screen shot: 
zongo at vortex:~$ sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio
[sudo] password for zongo: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio indicator-sound libcanberra-pulse pulseaudio
  pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
pulseaudio-module-gconf
  pulseaudio-module-x11 ubuntu-desktop
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 5,951kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 

As you can see it is going to remove ubuntu-desktop. This is what
happened to me last time when i was fiddling with it. I had to reinstall
my system completely. I really would like to know how you removed
pulse-audio from your box ?