From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: No sound in games using sdl-mixer
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 21:46:57 +0200
Message-ID: <87k2r2s9fy.fsf@elephly.net>
References: <87d1wxxl5x.fsf@gmail.com> <87vbao4oep.fsf@member.fsf.org>
	<87vbao9fws.fsf@gmail.com> <871tdbwdot.fsf@member.fsf.org>
	<87lhbian53.fsf@gmail.com> <871tda7qfp.fsf@gnu.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Return-path: <guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>
Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41537)
	by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <rekado@elephly.net>) id 1ZipFX-0004da-OB
	for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 15:47:12 -0400
Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <rekado@elephly.net>) id 1ZipFW-0006SF-QT
	for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 15:47:11 -0400
In-reply-to: <871tda7qfp.fsf@gnu.org>
List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution."
	<guix-devel.gnu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/guix-devel>,
	<mailto:guix-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel>
List-Post: <mailto:guix-devel@gnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:guix-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guix-devel>,
	<mailto:guix-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe>
Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org
Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org
To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>


Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> FWIW I just tried ExtremeTuxRacer and it works out of the box for me (on
> GuixSD).
>
> I do use PulseAudio though.  To allow ETR’s sound output to mix with
> other things that may be playing sound already, I have this in my
> ~/.asoundrc:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> pcm.!default {
>     type pulse
> }
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Should we add it to the account skeletons?

I don’t think that’s a good idea.  This means that the ALSA library will
always try to output to the “pulse” backend, which may not exist.  For
example, I do not use PulseAudio, so I do not have the “pulse” backend,
so this ~/.asoundrc setting would not work in my case.  (I don’t know if
it would do harm, to be fair.)

Is there a better way to make sdl-mixer output to the ALSA backend by
default?  I think outputing to ALSA is a safe default choice, as most
applications do not directly output to PulseAudio but to ALSA.

~~ Ricardo