Recently I had a problem. After having my 4yo son fiddle with my laptop for a few hours, my laptop locked itslef with no wireless. Pressing the WiFi button didn’t help at all. After some hours of researching I found a solution. Here is it below. Hope it saves a few people some hours of troubleshooting:
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Feb 07
PulseAudio should die. This is the basic truth. It’s got delays and causes choppy sound for a huge amount of people. Most of use use only PCI sound cards with skype and gnome MPlayer which work just fine with PA. But try playing games with wine or even native games such as supertuxkart. It’s not going to work. PulseAudio develops a choppy sound – so choppy it sounds as if it went through a mixer. Especially if using things like USB Headsets.
Sadly you can’t fix it in Mint 8 (and Ubuntu 9.10) as you did in 7 (and in Ubuntu 9.04). In Mint 7 you would just go to Control Centre, click on Audio (or Sound Preferences) and choose ALSA instead of PulseAudio. Then just remove PulseAudio and you are done. Sadly, loads of stuff are removed from new Gnome/Ubuntu/Mint to make it difficult. Somehow they are trying to force us to use this useless system called PulseAudio. Ok, enough rant. Here’s how to get Mint 8 *and Ubuntu Karmic 9.10) fixed:
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