Bug#739329: please configure alsa to use pulseaudio by default

[Holger Levsen]

package: pulseaudio
severity: wishlist
x-debbugs-cc: debian-devel at lists.debian.org

Hi,

On Montag, 17. Februar 2014, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 18:05 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > On 02/17/2014 05:25 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > > On 02/17/2014 11:03 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > In any case, since you mentioned that you have an .asoundrc in your
> > $HOME, it might be noteworthy to add what people using PulseAudio
> 
> > should have in this file:
> That's all desktop users, by default, right?
> 
> > pcm.pulse {
> > 
> >     type pulse
> > 
> > }
> > 
> > pcm.!default {
> > 
> >     type pulse
> > 
> > }
> > 
> > ctl.!default {
> > 
> >     type pulse
> > 
> > }
> 
> I added something like that a while ago, and have been happy with PA
> since I did so.  But at this point in time, it should not be necessary
> to add it.
> 
> > This basically tells ALSA applications - which don't know anything
> > about PA - to use the PulseAudio-ALSA backend. Thus, such applications
> > think they use an ALSA device when, in fact, they use PulseAudio.
> > 
> > These show up as ALSA in the "Applications" tab in the PA sound
> > preferences during playback.
> > 
> > It might be sensible to add a global asound.conf in /etc/ to resolve
> > this issue for every ALSA-only application.
> 
> Yes, this really should be present by default.

indeed.


cheers,
	Holger


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