Comment 151 for bug 198453

@Daniel
Yes I know I can remove pulseaudio, but as stated by others, it breaks ubuntu-desktop package and thus prevent the upgrade to be proposed. And also since the begining with hardy, I have to rebuild alsa from the source (the ones downloaded with apt-get sources) and sometime safe-upgrades break again the sound system.

I think sound issues are of major importance to Ubuntu since sound belongs to the basics thing that "should just work". Pulseaudio is in itself a good idea, but it is much more ressource consuming that alsa dmix. Actually I am not sure wether pulseaudio really bring something to people not wanting to do CAM or webradios, and for those, would'nt it be more consistent to have Jack ?

Also the problem with hardy is the regression on the alsa side : 7.10 I had my alsa sound working, inputs, outputs every thing was correct (after some painful configuration). With hardy, at first I had only one slider, no alsa interface (mixing capabilities were inexistant for none pulseaudio devices), I got rid of pulseaudio, find out that I had to recompile alsa, and unfortunately I am still unable to have the recording from mic/line in input work properly : it is very noisy, even thought the sound in the speaker when not muting mic line in is good.

I do really hope that 8.10 will clean these messy problems and that sound won'nt be anymore an issue on Ubuntu.

Regards.