Comment 143 for bug 198453

Well I think pulseaudio is one of the thing that was a little bit too fast harshed into ubuntu. As of now it disables the use of lots of features of Alsa and the latest update of hardy screwed my settings one more time.

People should have the choice between an feature missing cpu expensive pulseaudio and a correctly set Alsa, and updates should'nt reset theirs settings.

It is not acceptable that after an update, one loses its ALSA device, so that it becomes impossible for him to easily set his volume and that gnome's audio preferences falls the default device to the oss interface.

I do hope that the pulse-audio implementation in Intrepid won't be as messy as the one in hardy, but the audio problems induced by hardy pulseaudio arevery nerving me and make me consider switching to other distrib.

For now I have applications that complain about not finding sound a.s.o. gnome mixer is unusable.