Pulseaudio sound issues

Pulseaudio, the new sound server introduced in openSUSE 11.0, Ubuntu and other newer Linux distos is a great step foward in terms of functionality but sadly as it is reletively new and untested it intreduces some issues:

• If a sound is playing when you hibernate or suspend it will crash pulseaudio; you won’t get any more sound untill you restart.
• Any application which uses sound will need to be restarted after you suspend or hibernate.
• VLC’s sound output is broken.
• It messes with system sounds.

Unlike Ubuntu openSUSE can correctly cope with flash’s sound output.

To remove all pulseaudio related packages you can use the command (this is probably only worth it if you use suspend/hibernate or VLC):

su -c ‘zypper rm pulseaudio-utils pulseaudio-utils pulseaudio-utils libpulse0 libpulse0-32bit libpulse0 alsa-plugins-pulse libflashsupport’