[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#199226: marked as done (libasound2: Please provide debconf way to configure asound.conf)

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Subject: alsa-base: setup a minimal /etc/asound.conf with debconf
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Package: alsa-base
Version: 0.9.4-1
Severity: wishlist

hello;

I noticed at the alsa-wiki pages that alsa will use /etc/asound.conf for
some configuration data; this behavior is apparently implemented via 
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf

Maybe it would be useful if a default /etc/asound.conf was set-up by
debconf, allowing the user to at least specify some "custom" settings for
the 'default'  pcm device [pcm.default in alsa.conf], like so:

pcm.!default {
  type hw
  card 0
  device 0
}

I'm guessing that the "!" on "!default" makes it override the settings for
the pcm.default device, without redefining the thing entirely. I'll admit
that I don't know the syntax of alsa.conf in full, though.

With that, one could then use 'default' as the name of the alsa device, for esd
and such. Examples:

  esound -d default                    ## when using libesd-alsa0
  alsaplayer -d default somefile.wav

Granted, alsa configuration files aren't the purtiest things; still, this
would offer the user a basis for modifying the settings for the 'default' 
sound device, without going through every application init-script that's
been told to use it -- one could just edit the settings for the pcm.default
device, in /etc/alsa.conf, rather than editing all of the init scripts.

It might also be helpful to put a comment, in the generated /etc/asound.conf, 
directing the admin to  http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=.asoundrc

just some thoughts

thanks for maintaining this stuff

---
sean

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Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  alsa-utils                    0.9.4-1    Advanced Linux Sound Architecture 
ii  debconf                       1.2.42     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.5.4      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  modutils                      2.4.21-2   Linux module utilities.
ii  procps                        1:3.1.9-1  The /proc file system utilities
ii  psmisc                        21.3-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

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Vincent L=F6nngren wrote:
> As far as I'm concerned, this is better than a debconf way of fixing it=
.=20
> Maybe this should wishlist item should be considered fixed instead of=20
> wontfix?

OK  :)

FYI.  The configuration program I mentioned earlier is now called 'asound=
conf'
and is included in the alsa-utils package.  Currently it is very skeletal=
.

--=20
Thomas