Please read the entire thread before posting, because this has been discussed already. I never said it breaks PulseAudio. I said the most recent version removed the only workaround for that I knew of by removing the ESD driver. I understand what they are doing. Doesn't mean I'm happy with how it has...

For the record, back when PA and Wine had an incompatibility in Ubuntu (and when I used Ubuntu), I hacked away a very bad thing that allowed me to have sound. What I did was force Pulseaudio to go through DMIX instead of taking control over hw:0. This was great because I could have apps use Pulse a...

So for Wine to drop support for PulseAudio Wine has never had support for PulseAudio. The "winepulse" driver some distros ship is unofficial and unsupported. Wine's sound architecture is being overhauled. Some things will inevitably break along the way; bugs should be filed for real regre...

There are other volume control programs that will work with your hardware buttons, my current system has never had any part of PulseAudio installed and all of my keyboard, speaker remote, etc. buttons for sound have always worked fine (OpenSuse 11.4) It would take some research and maybe some diggi...

It certainly is required if I want to have quick, easy access to my media player controls through Indicator-sound. Removing PulseAudio from Ubuntu/Linux Mint removes that, and it takes some adding of a specialized PPA (the old alsa tools aren't present in Ubuntu anymore) and installing 3rd-party pac...

In version 1.3.24 and previous versions, sound was hit-and-miss on my system unless I had ESD enabled. Now that ESD has been removed, so has any reliable sound. When using the ALSA driver, some sounds work for a while, after which all sound completely stops. Enabling ESD and using the PulseAudio eSo...