Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (505 mails)

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx>]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:53:00 +0200,
> Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> > Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > At Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:16:33 +0200,
> > > Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> > > > Vincent Untz wrote:
> > > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > > On the one hand people are complaining about SuSEconfig and we try to
> > > > get rid of it. On the other hand we introduce scripts like
> > > > pulseaudio-setup that are even worse. IMO that script needs to be
> > > > removed. Instead the apps it tries to configure must be patched to
> > > > probe for PA (ie without autospawn) and use it when available. That way
> > > > applications started in a PA enabled session use PA but when started in
> > > > a session without PA transparently fall back to alsa/OSS. That's how
> > > > e.g. openal-soft behaves.
> > >
> > > FYI, I implemented it for alsa-lib pulse plugin.  Now it falls back
> > > to the system-default (e.g. dmix) when the connection to PA failed.
> >
> > Nice. Does that mean it's safe now to enable alsa-plugins-pulse
> > unconditionally? Ie without the special asound-pulse.conf?
>
> /etc/asound-pulse.conf is still needed since alsa-plugins-pulse is an
> add-on package, but /etc/alsa-pulse.conf (how confusing!) can be
> merged to the default configuration, yes.  That is, alsa-plugins-pulse
> will be activated automatically when the package is installed.  So
> far, it's activated only when $ALSA_CONFIG_PATH=/etc/alsa-pulse.conf
> is set (which was done in setup-pulseaudio script).
>
> One remaining problem is that PA library always spews an error message
> when a connection failed from a client and there is no way to suppress
> it.  This is annoying behavior, and should be fixed in PA side.

AFAICS you don't pass PA_CONTEXT_NOAUTOSPAWN. Ie the lib will try to
start the daemon then. It would only fail if pulseaudio is actually
uninstalled. By passing PA_CONTEXT_NOAUTOSPAWN the connection just
silently fails if the daemon isn't running.

cu
Ludwig

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