[ltp] Re: karmic koala audio problems

Tim Tebbit linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:38:11 -0400


Lou Burnard wrote:
> I just upgraded my trusty thinkpad X301 to Karmic Koala -- and found
> that audio died, and everything else (e.g. web browsing) slowed down
> to a crawl, presumably while Gnome tries to recover it.
> 
> There's quite a bit of discussion in the usual ubuntu forums about
> changes in Koala, but this seems specific to the Thinkpad: my desktop
> is running fine under it (with sound).
> 
> When I say "audio died", I mean I can't get a peep out of it, and even
> the "Sound" menu item on System->Preferences is awol.
> 
> Anyone else hit this?


I would bet 6 weeks of being forced to run /that/ OS it's Pulseaudio.
Which should be called problem-audio. Dump it. Or imho, dump them both. :)