Re: No sound in games using sdl-mixer

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> 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.)

OK, makes sense (I was expecting some push back, just wanted to make
sure.  ;-))

Ludo’.