[mythtv-users] Lost HDMI sound in Media Library->Search Internet videos after move to Mythbuntu 12.04

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> yeah smoke and mirrors==alsa
>>>
>>> Oh I should have said, theres a lot of info (and confusion) to be
>>> found in /proc/asound  :-)
>>
>> that's a lot of subdirs.
>>
>> Digging around I found this recommendation:
>>
>> rm -r ~/.pulse ~/.pulse-cookie
>> sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base
>> sudo apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio
>> sudo apt-get install alsa-base
>> sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
>> sudo alsa force-reload
>>
>> should I go for it?
>
> It won't get rid of pulse. In fact I though mythbuntu didn't install
> pulse, but maybe that changed. My virtualbox 12.04 install doesn't
> have pulseaudio installed, but does have libpulse0

That's suposed to be "I *thought* mythbuntu didn't install pulse..."