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:
> >> I don't see how I am rewriting things in a wrong way. Do you want to
> >> argue about the exact meaning of "broken" now?
> >
> > Indeed, words are important. For me, when I read "broken" it means bugs
> > upstream, and I'm convince the problem is configuration, which is a
> > completely different thing.
>
> Ok, just take it with a grain of salt next time. You know what I wanted
> to express which is that just because someone is a DD, they do not
> automatically know the solution to every problem.
>
> 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.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
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