Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

[Alecks Gates]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Alecks Gates <alecks.g@×××××.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I would like a link to that blog post. I haven't read anything about it.
>
> Regards.
> --
> Canek Peláez Valdés
> Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
>

Sure, here you go:

http://arunraghavan.net/2012/02/gentoo-pulseaudio-alsa-update/