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

[Felipe Sateler]

On 14 October 2016 at 13:12, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
> 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/

I realized that link may die in the future, so I'm copying the contents:

# PulseAudio alsa plugin configuration file to set the pulseaudio plugin as
# default output for applications using alsa when pulseaudio is running.
hook_func.pulse_load_if_running {
    lib "libasound_module_conf_pulse.so"
    func "conf_pulse_hook_load_if_running"
}

@hooks [
    {
        func pulse_load_if_running
        files [
            "/usr/share/alsa/pulse-alsa.conf"
        ]
        errors false
    }
]

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler