[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#291190: alsa-base: dmix settings in /etc/asound.conf

[Vincent Lönngren]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.7-2
Severity: wishlist

It would be really neat if the installation scripts had an option to set 
up /etc/asound.conf to use dmix. A lot of people don't have hardware 
mixing, applications not being able to output ALSA sound due to some 
other application using it is definitely a FAQ on mailing lists. It also 
takes quite a lot of googling to find the dmix solution.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.7-2    ALSA utilities
ii  debconf                       1.4.30.11  Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.8.4      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  lsof                          4.71-1     List open files.
ii  module-init-tools             3.1-rel-2  tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                      2.4.26-1.2 Linux module utilities

-- debconf information:
* alsa-base/alsactl_store_on_shutdown: always autosave