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’.
next prev parent 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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