Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (505 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

For a while now, it has been possible to enable/disable PulseAudio by
setting the PULSEAUDIO_ENABLE variable in /etc/sysconfig/sound and by
calling the setup-pulseaudio helper.

However, by default, there was no such PULSEAUDIO_ENABLE variable in
/etc/sysconfig/sound (fillup wasn't called), and on new installs, this
setting was not propagated to various files. This resulted in no real
enforcement of the PA configuration.

I'm fixing this, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707703
for a small discussion. With the fix, when the pulseaudio package is
installed/updated, relevant configuration files are updated based on the
PULSEAUDIO_ENABLE setting.

This might impact people who either had a customized sound configuration
for PulseAudio (ie, PA disabled for, say, libao but enabled for alsa),
or for people who had manually disabled PulseAudio with just the
setup-pulseaudio helper: PULSEAUDIO_ENABLE will be set to "yes" if it's
not already defined, and that will forcefully enable PA everywhere.

The solution is to edit /etc/sysconfig/sound and set PULSEAUDIO_ENABLE
to either "no" (which means "don't use PulseAudio") or "custom" (which
means "do not touch the PulseAudio-related configuration).

This should also get mentioned in release notes for 12.1. What's the
best way to make sure this happens?

Thanks,

Vincent

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