Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2 On Apr 11, 2012 12:04 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Alex Schuster <[email protected]> wrote: > > Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > > > >> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Alex Schuster <[email protected]> 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.
