Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshau...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello, > > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: >> >>> Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: >>> >>>> All kidding aside, I'm happy to push this with PulseAudio support, *if* >>>> a GuixSD user can confirm that it works. I don't have sound on my GuixSD >>>> installation. >>> >>> I use it all the time and it works, except for IceCat & co. as Chris >>> notes, which try to use ALSA directly. >> >> Does this mean you do not hear sound coming from IceCat and its plugins >> with the example desktop system configuration? > > This is my experience too: works lovely for things like VLC, but not so > much for IceCat.
How strange! Do you have a configuration file “~/.asoundrc” or “/etc/asound.conf” that reroutes ALSA to PulseAudio? I’m not using PulseAudio on GuixSD and I have sound in media players and browser alike. ~~ Ricardo PS: don’t think I’m blocking the use of PulseAudio. If it works with PA when built with the PA libs (and doesn’t work without it), then it’s fine to make a dependency on the PA libs, of course. I’m just curious to learn why rerouting ALSA to PA doesn’t work — because rerouting is the recommended way to get plain ALSA programmes to work nice with PA.
