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pulseaudio package

  1. Bug #295832
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 295832

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Martin Stjernholm (msub) wrote : Re: Alsa does not honor pcm.!default in ~/.asoundrc because of /usr/share/alsa/pulse-alsa.conf

Bug #198453 contains a long discussion about this, and although I haven't read it thoroughly, the gist is apparently that it's generally a good thing to do that override.

Still, people might have any number of reasons for wanting things their own way. I guess a problem here is that the alsa config files doesn't provide a way for letting local configuration properly override hook based configuration.

In the meantime, until that is fixed, I suggest an option in /etc/default/pulseaudio to disable the overrides of pcm.!default and ctl.!default. That way it's at least possible to cope in a system level without resorting to editing files outside /etc.