Safely Remove Pulseaudio?

[zampes]

All my thanks to Hugo Alvarado; thanks so much for this, solved all my Pulse Audio related problems in 9.10, even 3 days before going 10.04
I described my issues here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1452145

[sieve]

For those who have removed Pulseaudio as described in this thread, and upgraded to 10.04, did this cause problems regarding sound? I don't want to do the upgrade and then find out after the fact that it undid all my efforts to get my sound working acceptably.

[tommcd]

For those who have removed Pulseaudio as described in this thread, and upgraded to 10.04, did this cause problems regarding sound? I don't want to do the upgrade and then find out after the fact that it undid all my efforts to get my sound working acceptably.

I just did a clean install of Ubutnu 10.04. I then removed pulseaudio and gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio using:

sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio

APT then removed a bunch of other pulseaudio related packages. It also removed the ubuntu-desktop metapackage.
With some trepidation, I let APT do it's thing. I have since logged out and rebooted with no ill effects. Sound works fine with alsa; and the ubuntu desktop is intact with all my settings preserved.
Pulse Audio is less of a resource hog in 10.04 than it was in 9.10. However, it still was using more of my CPU (around 3-4% with one sound app running, and up to 12-14% with 2 sound apps running) than alsa, so I removed it! I have no need for pulse audio.

Hope this helps.

[mgol]

I did an upgrade and then invoke the following:

sudo apt-get purge libcanberra-pulse pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pulseaudio-module-gconf pulseaudio-module-udev   pulseaudio-module-x11 gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils pavucontrol 

sudo apt-get install gnome-alsamixer alsa-oss python-alsaaudio

Now it works OK.

[Rockin Robbins]

I just did a clean install of Ubutnu 10.04. I then removed pulseaudio and gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio using:

sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio

APT then removed a bunch of other pulseaudio related packages. It also removed the ubuntu-desktop metapackage.
With some trepidation, I let APT do it's thing. I have since logged out and rebooted with no ill effects. Sound works fine with alsa; and the ubuntu desktop is intact with all my settings preserved.
Pulse Audio is less of a resource hog in 10.04 than it was in 9.10. However, it still was using more of my CPU (around 3-4% with one sound app running, and up to 12-14% with 2 sound apps running) than alsa, so I removed it! I have no need for pulse audio.

Hope this helps.

Just did it. I was pretty desperate, with the flaky sound totally ruining my computing experience with Ubuntu 10.04. Had blamed it on my relatively ancient Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card, which is marvelous under Windows XP. I had already burned a Kubuntu install disk to start again from scratch when I tried your fix. Rock solid audio now. It's great!

[tommcd]

I had already burned a Kubuntu install disk to start again from scratch when I tried your fix.

Kubuntu and now even Xubuntu also use pulse audio, so using Kubuntu would not be a solution. If you want a *buntu that does not use pulse audio, you would have to go to the new lighweight Lubuntu. There is also Crunchbang, but Crunchbang is still at version 9.04. Crunchbang 10 is currently at alpha stage.
Other distros, like Fedora and Mandriva also use pulse audio.

Rock solid audio now. It's great!

Glad to help. So was pulse audio a resource hog on your computer also? It is on mine. But at least it was less of a resource hog on 10.04 than it was on 9.10.
Some pulse audio tidbits:
http://www.linux.com/news/hardware/d...start-doing-it
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/42129
http://www.unixlads.com/?p=179
We are not the only users who are frustrated by this!

[teet]

I did the steps outlined in this post: http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/sh...73&postcount=4
and everything is working like I want it now.

My major issue with pulse audio is that I have a mythtv frontend running all the time as a seperate x-screen via a tv-out. The frontend grabs all the audio and consequently I have no sound on my main x-screen.

I made a link to gnome-alsamixer and put it where the old volume mixer applet used to go. I chose a medium-volume icon and now everything at least LOOKS like it should (although the icon doesn't change based on the volume level, but I can live with that).

Maybe all this pulse audio nonsense will be sorted out by 12.04

-teet

[Quake]

But now, another problem arise... how to make the keyboard volume work because it seems pulseaudio is MUCH MORE integrated than 9.04. In Jaunty, I didn't have that problem.

[teet]

But now, another problem arise... how to make the keyboard volume work because it seems pulseaudio is MUCH MORE integrated than 9.04. In Jaunty, I didn't have that problem.

Can you just redefine the shortcut key in System --> preferences --> keyboard shortcuts?

-teet

[feistybill]

tommcd, mgol,

THANK YOU!

I followed your instructions and now that piece of junk called PulseAudio is not infesting my machine anymore