Crashing Pulse Audio in Ubuntu Hardy

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Uploaded by on Jun 6, 2008

Pulse seems pretty neat - but it's the first audio system I've ever been able to crash so easily.

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  • Wow! What are the specs on your computer?!??!

  • Nothing special:

    Intel P35 board

    Q6600

    4 gigs DDR2 800

    Cheap Nvidia card

    Cheap TV tuner

    Old SB Audigy

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  • @electra

    thats linux for ya, works on the shittiest piece of hardware with the fastest speed possible.

  • linux rocks:) i'm sure there is a way to reset pulse when it crashes:) without a reboot

  • Kubuntu 9.10 fully updated to KDE SC 4.4 is very nice (10.04 is better though, the Alpha already works better with wireless broadband modems). Arch is more like a do-it-yourself kit racing car. If you have the time to spend on it, its quite rewarding, and you get a great rolling-release distro out of it.

  • Nice to hear that some other distros (and the alternate Ubuntu packages) are avoiding PulseAudio. Unfortunately, I tried Kubuntu 8.04, and had some complaints about it. I've heard of Arch Linux, but never tried it. I'll have to try it in a virtual box some time.

  • Kubuntu doesn't use PulseAudio and my system is working fine. I have also installed Arch and am playing about with it. I rather like the Pacman package manager.

  • I'm sharing your pain. The unfortunate bit is that I had switched back to Ubuntu after trying openSuSE 11.2 and having sound issues with PA. From what I've read, a lot of Linux Distros are going to PulseAudio, and there is no real good reason as to why.

    I'm hoping the Linux community will drop PA, it would really help.

  • I think it's very entertaining to see that your crashing Pulseaudio, but on the other hand windows would have crashed after opening 6 movies side-by-side xD

  • I constantly get sound drop outs and lose audio. I have to kill FAILaudio to get my audio back ! Just a few moments ago I had several YouTube vids ready to play and I lost audio and could not get it back. Again had to kill FAILaudio and restart my web browser as the sound wouldn't work again till I restarted it, so I had to buffer the vids again.

    And if I try to uninstall it, I'm told that Ubuntu is dependant on it and it will screw my system.

    Screw this, I'm finding another distro.

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