I find that pulseaudio interferes with my wine applications. And I remove it by the roots. sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio But there are kinder ways to stop it, like using pasuspender. Susan Thanks! I thought I had tried this by killing the process, but apparently removing it outright and then reboot...

My apologies beforehand if this is a common issue, but I have next to no experience with Ubuntu. I have a regular microphone hooked into my MoBo onboard sound and it works fine in Ubuntu (tested using a sound recorder). When I launch Steam, and any game within, I cannot get my microphone to work. I ...