[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio passthrough branch doesn't read /etc/pulse/default.pa

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Maarten Bosmans at 23/03/11 18:36 did gyre and gimble:
> 2011/3/21 Dark Shadow <shadowofdarkness at gmail.com>:
>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Dark Shadow <shadowofdarkness at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have successfully bitstreamed DTS-HD from xbmc through PA but in
>>> using the passthrough git branch it doesn't read that config file
>>> which causes problems for me forcing a sink.
>>>
>>> How can I fix this since I have to kill pulseaudio then restart it
>>> with "pulseaudio --load="module-alsa-sink device=hdmi:1,3"" to get
>>> hdmi audio working
>>>
>>>
>>> I am running Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha.
>>>
>>
>> I figured it out, I copied default.pa into ~/.pulse and it works now.
>> Not preferential in a multi-user environment but it is fine for now.
>> With the feature of lasting through a distro upgrade.
> 
> That's a workaround, but pulse still should read the system-wide
> startup script (note that that is different from the config file) What
> does pulseaudio --dump-config give?

Am I missing something here... default.pa is the startup script and if
it exists in ~/.pulse it overrides the one in /etc/pulse/. The
system-wide one won't be read at all.

Even with the daemon.conf file, the same logic is true (even if it would
in theory be possible to read both, with the local file overriding the
system wide one on a setting-by-setting basis)

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding tho'....

Col

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