Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> skribis: > Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes: > >> FWIW I just tried ExtremeTuxRacer and it works out of the box for me (on >> GuixSD). >> >> I do use PulseAudio though. To allow ETR’s sound output to mix with >> other things that may be playing sound already, I have this in my >> ~/.asoundrc: >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> pcm.!default { >> type pulse >> } >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> Should we add it to the account skeletons? > > I don’t think that’s a good idea. This means that the ALSA library will > always try to output to the “pulse” backend, which may not exist. For > example, I do not use PulseAudio, so I do not have the “pulse” backend, > so this ~/.asoundrc setting would not work in my case. (I don’t know if > it would do harm, to be fair.)
OK, makes sense (I was expecting some push back, just wanted to make sure. ;-)) Ludo’.
