[mythtv-users] 10.04 volume issue

[greg]

Josh White wrote:
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>     Hi Josh
>     Well all I can do is commiserate, since upgrading to 10.04 I have
>     had a never-ending string of audio difficulties.
>     I'm not given to harshness but IMO that blight that is pulseaudio
>     needs to be ripped out of your system by the roots.
>     I've spent most of my time rebooting my Myth 0.23 box (usually 3
>     reboots is necessary) to re-gain
>     lost audio after my FE/BE crashes to the desktop with subsequent
>     total loss of audio and I'm convinced that it's solely due to
>     Ubuntu's incorporation of a sound server that has basically
>     (again, IMO) ruined what has been a very solid and proven esound
>     architecture.
>     The internal player crashes consistently with WMV3 files, external
>     mplayer is better but not by much.
>     Mythtv I'm sure is more finely tuned to system resources than some
>     other applications and as such with pulseaudio enabled I've been
>     pretty much relegated to XBMC and SageTV (which runs surprisingly
>     well with zero crashes unless the audio has been previously
>     brought down by a myth-pulseadio crash). The logs are full of
>     pulseadio sink errors.
>     I haven't experienced so much frustration with Linux since the
>     21st floppy of a 23 floppy Slackware distribution invariably being
>     defective 25 years ago!
>     Hopefully you'll get better mileage but I've had it with pulseaudio.
>
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> It seems that with every release of myth and ubuntu, I find more 
> things that don't work.  The most stable setup I ever had was .21 
> running on ubuntu 8.10 (with the same hardware I'm running now).  I'm 
> pretty sure I rebooted the machine once between installation and 
> upgrading to .22 (besides for a power outage or two).  Those were the 
> days...
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I have been wanting to upgrade to the latest Ubuntu( just to get rid of 
some cruft),but this thread has convinced me not to..The only problems I 
ever have is audio..

Would anyone know of a distro that doesn't install pulse?