[pulseaudio-discuss] Make pulseaudio the default alsa device (Was: LADSPA Per Channel\Audio Woes)

[Felipe Sateler]

On 14 October 2016 at 12:13, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-10-14 at 11:48 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> On 14 October 2016 at 11:44, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote:
>> > The stock configuration of Ubuntu will set
>> > pulseaudio as the default device for alsa applications, and that's the
>> > way things should be.
>>
>> Would it make sense to upstream this bit? This should be fairly
>> similar across linux distros, no?
>
> The relevant configuration snippet is already shipped in alsa-plugins
> upstream. The file in the source tree is
>
>     pulse/99-pulseaudio-default.conf.example
>
> and it gets installed to
>
>     $datadir/alsa/alsa.conf.d/99-pulseaudio-default.conf.example



Yes, but that is not enabled by default. In debian we use the
following file to load that config automatically:

https://sources.debian.net/src/pulseaudio/9.0-4/debian/pulse.conf/

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler