Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

[Alecks Gates]

Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2
On Apr 11, 2012 12:04 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
wrote:
> > Canek Peláez Valdés writes:
> >
> >> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
wrote:
> >
> >>> Recently, PulseAudio got installed. Seems like gnome-settings-daemon
> >>> version 3 no longer has the pulseaudio use flag, so it wants
pulseaudio,
> >>> which needs alsa-plugins built with the pulseaudio use flag. I
wouldn't
> >>> mind using PulseAudio, but ist starts automatically when I play
movies,
> >>> and I get no sound output in mplayer or VLC. And there are weird side
> >>> effects, sometimes playback stops, I have to make it run again by
> >>> skipping back and forward. Sometimes videos play much faster than
normal.
> >>
> >> Is MPlayer using PulseAudio? Maybe if it did, the problem would go
> >> away; I have this in my ~/.mplayer/config:
> >>
> >> ao=pulse
> >> For sure, VLC has an option to use PA by default also.
> >
> > Oh, I think it does, but there was no sound output. Sorry for not
> > mentioning this. I had to switch manually to another sound device, HDA
> > ATI something, I cannot look now because I am not near my desktop PC.
> >
> > If it would just work, then I could make my players use it if they don't
> > already. But what about old applications like Quake3, will they still
work?
>
> Of course. I have been using PulseAudio since it became stable in
> Gentoo (circa October 2010); in my experience, making everything sound
> related going through PulseAudio makes everything work. Most modern
> applications support directly PulseAudio; for the old ones that don't,
> you can make all ALSA sound go through PulseAudio like this:
>
> # cat /etc/asound.conf
> pcm.!default {
>    type pulse
> }
>
> ctl.!default {
>    type pulse
> }
>
> (If you want it for all users; for your user only, use $HOME/.asoundrc).

I believe this fix is no longer necessary in the latest version of
alsa-plugins, 1.0.25-r1 (with the pulseaudio USE flag of course).
Definitely don't have this config change on my systems.  I recall a blog
post from a couple months ago explaining this fix.