I would also like to have such an option, because it is extremely difficult to disable PulseAudio completely. For example Ryhthmbox does not seem to honor the Alsa setting in the Multimedia Preferences dialog and always plays through PulseAudio. Also the default output for Alsa is changed to PulseAudio so that all apps need to be configured explicitly to use another Alsa device than the default for direct output.
There are a lot of problems with PulseAudio, it seems that quite a few people have crackling sounds, echoes etc (including me). I already reported this when I upgraded to Karmic, but I got no reply other than people stating they have the same problem. As the problems even persists in the latest PulseAudio from the Lucid Alpha, I currently have no hope that this will be fixed soon and would like to get rid of PulseAudio. -- There is no easy way to turn off PulseAudio https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/505429 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
