Safely Remove Pulseaudio?

[mgol]

Well, I have followed your instructions, but now I cannot open Sound Recorder. I attached the error message as a screenshot.

Edit: I have to add that there are no "Sound Preferences" in the Preferences menu anymore.

Did You add the dtl31 ppa repository, followed by update, upgrade and reboot?

[yadayada2]

I did. But it didn't change anything. Now I have done all steps again and rebooted. And still the error message appears.

[mgol]

Go to System->Preferences->Sound and check if You have an audio device set.

[yadayada2]

As you can see in the attached screenshot, there is no such option.

Edit: When I run the item "Default Sound Card" it seems nothing happens. When I run this link in a terminal, this will be the output

/usr/bin/asoundconf-gtk < ~

(process:2537): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
sh: /usr/bin/asoundconf: not found
You need to make sure asoundconf is active!
By default, asoundconf's configuration file is ~/.asoundrc.asoundconf
and must be included in ~/.asoundrc. Open this file to make sure it is!

[mgol]

As you can see in the attached screenshot, there is no such option.

It is probably hidden. Right click and choose "Edit menu" and then turn it on. If it's still not there, You can invoke it manually:

gnome-volume-control

Try also this:

gstreamer-properties

[yadayada2]

Thanks, now I can open this dialog from the command line. However, the Sound Recorder still gives the same error message.

Then I have tried your second command, which will give me another windows, as to be seen in the next attached screenshot. ALSA is selected as default input plugin, and as device, there is a default option.

When I click on "Test", I get ALSA - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture: Could not open audio device for recording.

There are also two options, both labeled ALC1200 Analog. Selecting one and then testing, a new dialogue appears. "Testing pipeline". A small block runs from the left to the right and back again, but nothing more happens.

[yadayada2]

Sorry, little update. Now I can open the Sound Recorder. I don't know, why this works now. Thanks anyway.

The only problem remaining is that the front mic still doesn't work. Seems that taking away pulseaudio didn't solve that problem.

[mgol]

Invoke

alsamixer

in the terminal and upload the screenshot.

[yadayada2]

Somehow this still calls for pulse.

[mgol]

Check if You really removed these packages (sometimes some error may prevent it, leave conf. files etc.)...

sudo dpkg --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

Do You have ~/.asoundrc file? If so, remove it.

You can also check what You have in /etc/:

find /etc/ -name "*alsa*" 2>/dev/null
find /etc/ -name "*pulse*" 2>/dev/null

and check if any of found *alsa* files doesn't invoke PulseAudio in any way.

I'm running out of ideas - didn't You change a lot of stuff before upgrade to 10.04? I'm convinced it should work just OK after performing steps supplied by teamanx on a clean 10.04 install...