package: pulseaudio severity: wishlist x-debbugs-cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Hi,
On Montag, 17. Februar 2014, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 18:05 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > On 02/17/2014 05:25 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > > On 02/17/2014 11:03 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > In any case, since you mentioned that you have an .asoundrc in your
> > $HOME, it might be noteworthy to add what people using PulseAudio
>
> > should have in this file:
> That's all desktop users, by default, right?
>
> > pcm.pulse {
> >
> > type pulse
> >
> > }
> >
> > pcm.!default {
> >
> > type pulse
> >
> > }
> >
> > ctl.!default {
> >
> > type pulse
> >
> > }
>
> I added something like that a while ago, and have been happy with PA
> since I did so. But at this point in time, it should not be necessary
> to add it.
>
> > 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.
indeed.
cheers,
Holger
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