Bug#661095: pulseaudio: pulse-alsa.conf show is not a compound

[Bob Proulx]

tags 661095 + patch
thanks

Bob Proulx wrote:
>   ALSA lib conf.c:1220:(parse_def) show is not a compound
>   ALSA lib conf.c:1686:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:24:26:Unexpected char
>   ALSA lib conf.c:3406:(config_file_open) /usr/share/alsa/pulse-alsa.conf may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it

Florian Kulzer researched this problem in detail (Thank you!) and
posted his findings to the debian-user mailing list here:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/02/msg01851.html

Florian Kulzer wrote:
> I found an Ubuntu bug which claims that the problem is fixed in their
> latest version of the pulseaudio package:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/939153
>
> They don't provide further details so I downloaded a few versions of
> their pulseaudio package and compared the configuration files. The older
> Ubuntu versions of pulseaudio have the same broken pulse-alsa.conf file
> as Sid does. The newest version has this instead:

--------------- CUT BELOW THIS LINE ---------------
# Default to PulseAudio

pcm.!default {
    type pulse
    hint {
        show on
        description "Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound
        server"
    }
}

ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}
--------------- CUT ABOVE THIS LINE ---------------

> The new configuration file seems to solve the problem on my Sid system.

Probably making the same change as was done in Ubuntu would be reasonable.

Thanks for maintaining pulseaudio!

Bob
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