PulseAudio needs to be the default, by default, for all sound systems
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pulseaudio (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: pulseaudio
This bug report spans multiple audio systems (esd, arts, alsa, sdl_mixer, and oss, just to name a few).
It's pretty simple: PulseAudio is installed, but never really used. It just kinda sits there, taking up hard-drive space, waiting for an application with PulseAudio support to come along and use it. The PerfectSetup page on PulseAudio's wiki has worked for me on several installations, on two distributions, on at least three different computers. For applications that simply refuse to co-operate with PulseAudio (and anything else, for that matter), pasuspender is a viable workaround.
I've been configuring this every time I install Ubuntu, so it would be extremely convenient if the Ubuntu developers finally did all that configuring by default.
This cannot be the case until all the derivatives (Kubuntu, Mythbuntu, and Xubuntu, namely) ship and use PA by default.