Bug#685955: libasound2-plugin-equal: alsaequal requires ~/.asoundrc to work

[Alessandro Ghedini]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:40:52PM +0100, Steve wrote:
> Package: libasound2-plugin-equal
> Version: 0.6-4
> Severity: important
> 
> 'alsamixer -D equal' gives this error:
> ALSA lib control.c:951:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL equal
> cannot open mixer: No such file or directory
> 
> This is resolved by creating a file: ~/.asoundrc
> More details can be found from the original creators web site as to the
> contents of this file.
> http://www.thedigitalmachine.net/alsaequal.html
> 
> As a suggestion, this file could be created for every user that does not have
> it.

A better solution would be to install the configuration file to the system-wide
alsa-lib configuration directory (/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d). This would also
allow single users to enable the plugin without the need to copy-paste the whole
configuration (see for example the pulse plugin in libasound2-plugins).

Cheers

-- 
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