The reason why alsa can't be set up to send all audio through pulseaudio is because the configuration files that need to be changed in order to do this are in libasound2, which is needed by all the Ubuntu flavours, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, etc. Setting alsa to go through pulseaudio would only break these desktops. Added to that, it would also break audio outside a user's desktop session, for example the sound you hear when the login screen appears.
** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: pulseaudio Status: New => Invalid -- Doing alsa applications to share sound with pulseaudio https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237375 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