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From: n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Oss/Alsa/Pulseaudio: never-ending wars (VBox)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 22:13:23
Message-Id: cc413700-93e8-42da-3755-d3e70827b22e@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Oss/Alsa/Pulseaudio: never-ending wars (VBox) by n952162
1 On 2020-02-19 22:58, n952162 wrote:
2 > On 2020-02-19 22:43, Mick wrote:
3 >> On Wednesday, 19 February 2020 19:31:08 GMT n952162 wrote:
4 >>> Perhaps coincidentally, that's almost identical to what I have on the host:
5 >>>
6 >>> 01~>cat .asoundrc
7 >>> defaults.pcm.!card 1
8 >>> defaults.pcm.!device 0
9 >>> defaults.pcm.!ctl 1
10 >> Isn't the exclamation mark "!" negating what follows it?
11 >>
12 >> If you are disabling all of them, you'll end up with the default setting, I
13 >> think.
14 >
15 > Do you have a reference for that?  I haven't been able to work out the
16 > logic of what that might mean.
17 >
18 > That "defaults.pcm.!card 1" might "*disable*" card 1 doesn't seem
19 > plausible to me.  If the default is 0, how is that improved by
20 > "/disabling/" card 1?  And, how do you assign card 1 to defaults, in
21 > that case?
22 >
23 *$ cat /etc/alsa/conf.d/99-pulseaudio-default.conf.example *
24 # Default to PulseAudio
25
26 pcm.!default {
27     type pulse
28     hint {
29         show on
30         description "Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound
31 Server)"
32     }
33 }
34
35 ctl.!default {
36     type pulse
37 }
38
39 What would the bangs here mean?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Oss/Alsa/Pulseaudio: never-ending wars (VBox) Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>