[Bug 707828] New: Document enforcement of PULSEAUDIO_ENABLE variable in /etc/sysconfig/sound
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707828 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707828#c0 Summary: Document enforcement of PULSEAUDIO_ENABLE variable in /etc/sysconfig/sound Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Factory Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Release Notes AssignedTo: ke@novell.com ReportedBy: vuntz@novell.com QAContact: coolo@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- Quoting http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2011-07/msg00356.html: 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). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #2 from Vincent Untz
Thanks for the info! Nevertheless it is not that clear, what we actually want to accomplish. I think it is in this sequence:
What we want to accomplish is simply correctly setup the system of users for pulseaudio; it's something that was apparently never correctly implemented, and we're fixing this. This has the side-effect of possibly breaking the setup of users who had manually disabled PA. We simply need to document this side-effect.
- PulseAudio is now the preconfigured default and we want all users to use it.
I believe this is true, and has been like that since 11.1 or 11.2.
- Encouraging those, who disabled PA, to make use of PA, too?
That's not the goal of my change, but in general, I guess we should encourage people to use PA, yes. It's just not related to this change.
- Those, who do not use PA intentionally, should be provided with a solution, to run their OS 12.1 without PA?
There's no change here, people can do the same as before (setup-pulseaudio --disable, or set this in yast). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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