[Pkg-alsa-devel] Debian Sid - Alsa broken

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Milomak <milomak at gmail.com> [2019-03-08 19:10 +0200]:

> Found where the "problem" is
> 
> # dpkg -L libasound2-plugins | grep 50-pulseaudio.conf
> /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/50-pulseaudio.conf
> locally diverted to: /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.pulse/50-pulseaudio.conf
> /etc/alsa/conf.d/50-pulseaudio.conf
> 
> # ls -lah /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.pulse/
> total 12K
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar  8 18:57 .
> drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4.0K Mar  8 18:57 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  242 Jan 26 17:17 50-pulseaudio.conf
> 
> # cp -v /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.pulse/50-pulseaudio.conf
> /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/
> '/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.pulse/50-pulseaudio.conf' ->
> '/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/50-pulseaudio.conf'
> 
> and voila, alsamixer now works. Is there a reason that the particular file
> would have been diverted?

/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.pulse/ is _NOT_ a regularly directory
installed by a Debian package. Your admin must have created it....

Elimar
-- 
  Numeric stability is probably not all that
  important when you're guessing;-)
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