Bug#596896: pulseaudio: pulse is not default alsa sound card after installing it

[Alexander Betaev]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.21-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hi!

I have met the following problem: after installing pulseaudio the flashplayer
(flashplugin) did not want to play audio while all pulseaudio-enabled programs
played simultaneously without a problem. The other problem was that flashplayer
captured audio playback and did not allowed other programs to play sound.
The problem was in that my audio card does not support hardware mixing and the
default alsa audio device was used by pulse audio and by flashplugin.

I don't know if this problem more relates to pulseaudio or flashplugin-nonfree
package. I tried to find if there was any related bug and one was found:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565423



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit                    0.4.1-4    framework for defining and trackin
ii  libasound2                    1.0.23-1   shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcap2                       1:2.19-3   support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.24-3   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgdbm3                      1.8.3-9    GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.6-1  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libltdl7                      2.2.6b-2   A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libpulse0                     0.9.21-3   PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsamplerate0                0.1.7-3    Audio sample rate conversion libra
ii  libsm6                        2:1.1.1-1  X11 Session Management library
ii  libsndfile1                   1.0.21-3   Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libspeexdsp1                  1.2~rc1-1  The Speex extended runtime library
ii  libudev0                      160-1      libudev shared library
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.3-3  X11 client-side library
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.1.0-3  X11 Testing -- Record extension li
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                          160-1      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio     0.10.24-1   GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libasound2-plugins           1.0.23-1+b1 ALSA library additional plugins
ii  pulseaudio-esound-compat     0.9.21-3    PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11        0.9.21-3    X11 module for PulseAudio sound se

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
pn  paman                         <none>     (no description available)
pn  paprefs                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  pavucontrol                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  pavumeter                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  pulseaudio-utils              0.9.21-3   Command line tools for the PulseAu

-- no debconf information
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pcm.pulse {
    type pulse
}

ctl.pulse {
    type pulse
}

pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}

ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}