Bug#739329: Fwd: Re: pulseaudio related problems....

[Holger Levsen]

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Betreff: Re: pulseaudio related problems....
Datum: Montag, 17. Februar 2014
Von: Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
An: debian-devel at lists.debian.org

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> not put a configuration in /etc/asound.conf that says to use pulse. 
[...]

Well, not in the basic ALSA packages.  But it should be possible for the
pulseaudio package to install a configuration file that does this.

In fact, there is this:

$ cat /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/99-pulseaudio-default.conf.example 
# Default to PulseAudio

pcm.!default {
    type pulse
    hint {
        show on
        description "Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)"
    }
}

ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}
$

But it has no effect because its filename extension is '.example' not
'.conf'.   It's installed by libasound2-plugins, which contains the
pulseaudio plugins and others.

So maybe the necessary change would be:
- move the pulseaudio ALSA plugins and this config file into a new
  binary package
- rename the config file so it's not just an example
- make pulseaudio recommend that binary package

Or alternately:
- move just this config file into a new binary package, depending on
  libasound2-plugins
- make pulseaudio recommend that binary package

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
You can't have everything.  Where would you put it?

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