Bug#739329: please configure alsa to use pulseaudio by default

Vitaliy Filippov vitalif at yourcmc.ru
Mon Feb 17 18:48:20 UTC 2014


>> > This basically tells ALSA applications - which don't know anything
>> > about PA - to use the PulseAudio-ALSA backend. Thus, such applications
>> > think they use an ALSA device when, in fact, they use PulseAudio.
>> >
>> > These show up as ALSA in the "Applications" tab in the PA sound
>> > preferences during playback.
>> >
>> > It might be sensible to add a global asound.conf in /etc/ to resolve
>> > this issue for every ALSA-only application.
>>
>> Yes, this really should be present by default.

I suppose this will be the part of PA package so if I remove PA this  
setting will still go away?

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With best regards,
   Vitaliy Filippov



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