[pilotmm]

Hello All

I used a SLAX live CD to get an image of my root partition, and my boot partition. Then I successfully removed pulse audio. I never had to rely on the image (very relieved about that). So far everything seems to be working, and the original problem is gone. Let me tell you how it all went:

I burned the iso for SLAX Live DVD Version 6.1.1. You have to go to the slax website to enable the partimage module. This is the imaging software that allows you to make copies of partitions. In addition, you have to enable a specific library. I cannot remember what one, but you can tell by the error message given by partimage. Also, after activating the library, I still had to symbolically link the library. The installed version is a later version than the one that partimage is looking for. It seems to be backwards compatible, so I had no problems. partimage was fairly easy to use, so nothing special there.

Once I rebooted, I went straight to Yast and removed all the pulseaudio components with one exception, I kept libpulse0. Naturally Yast suggested I remove various pulseaudio subcomponents and suggested I add some other component (that had nothing to do with pulseaudio). In all cases I accepted the first choice Yast gave me. Once complete I let Yast do its thing.

After a reboot, all my audio problems were gone. Very happy now. I have not noticed any problems. So life is good.

I hope this helps others. I just want to thank everyone who helped me out. The audio problem was quite strange and I had to rely on several threads so there are numerous people that got me to this point. I could not have done it without you all. Thanks a lot.

Take Care
PilotMM