Ludovic Courtès (2017-04-03 12:08 +0200) wrote:
> Florian Paul Schmidt <mista.ta...@gmx.net> skribis:
>
>> If the PulseAudio installation shipped with GuixSD is "sane" then it
>> will provide a virtual ALSA pcm device and will globally route the pcm
>> device called "default" to this virtual PCM device. This device will
>> provide stream mixing, etc..
>
> FWIW I have ~/.asoundrc with:
>
> pcm.!default {
> type pulse
> }
>
> to “reroute” ALSA applications to PulseAudio.
>
> I’m not sure whether we should do that by default, or install this
> .asoundrc for newly-created accounts. I guess some people may not want
> it.
At least I'm one of those people :-) I even have the following in my
.bash_profile to make sure that pulseaudio is never used:
export AUDIODRIVER=alsa
export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa
--
Alex
