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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mumble issues with pulseaudio
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 23:18:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737dpdway.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170403155211.yntkepqmkesu5yoa@abyayala> (ng0's message of "Mon, 3 Apr 2017 15:52:11 +0000")

ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> skribis:

> Alex Kost transcribed 0.8K bytes:
>> Ludovic Courtès (2017-04-03 12:08 +0200) wrote:
>> 
>> > Florian Paul Schmidt <mista.tapas@gmx.net> skribis:
>> >
>> >> If the PulseAudio installation shipped with GuixSD is "sane" then it
>> >> will provide a virtual ALSA pcm device and will globally route the pcm
>> >> device called "default" to this virtual PCM device. This device will
>> >> provide stream mixing, etc..
>> >
>> > FWIW I have ~/.asoundrc with:
>> >
>> > pcm.!default {
>> >     type pulse
>> > }
>> >
>> > to “reroute” ALSA applications to PulseAudio.
>> >
>> > I’m not sure whether we should do that by default, or install this
>> > .asoundrc for newly-created accounts.  I guess some people may not want
>> > it.
>> 
>> At least I'm one of those people :-)  I even have the following in my
>> .bash_profile to make sure that pulseaudio is never used:
>> 
>> export AUDIODRIVER=alsa
>> export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa
>> 
>> -- 
>> Alex
>> 
>
> I have an idea:
>
> Default to include it.
> We could have a setting which can be defined in the
> (operating-system) to set (profile-creation-asoundrc #f).

I was talking of the account skeletons, i.e., the files that are
automatically installed in the home directory of a newly-created account
(see (gnu system shadow)).  These files can always be modified or
removed by the user afterwards.

Still I understand that choosing a default is always difficult.  :-)

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-03 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-31 18:23 mumble issues with pulseaudio ng0
2017-04-01 13:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-01 15:43   ` ng0
2017-04-01 15:46     ` ng0
2017-04-02  9:33       ` Florian Paul Schmidt
2017-04-02  9:38         ` Florian Paul Schmidt
2017-04-03 10:08         ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-03 15:41           ` Alex Kost
2017-04-03 15:52             ` ng0
2017-04-03 21:18               ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-04-05  9:45                 ` Alex Kost
2017-04-05  9:57                   ` ng0
2017-04-05 12:47                     ` Florian Paul Schmidt
2017-04-08 20:32                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-02  9:10     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-02 10:59       ` ng0

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