I had also the same problem! It's not a bug of pulse audio but it seems a bug of packaging and documentation. /etc/asound.conf is necessary as set in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio, so the package configuration is supposed to create asound.conf if inexistent and add the necessary ctl.pulse.
It would be good also to add it to the README. Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

