no sound after steam installation

genLin · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2013 Posts: 8 Location: Bochum

Hi,

after I installed steam with about 17 dependencies where one was something with "pulseaudio alsa" it is not possible to simultaneously play sound files. I had to close steam and then could play a flashstreamed video... is there any suggestion to solve this?

I looked through the forums but I found nothing related to my topic.

thx in advance
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audiodef · Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 3:39 pm Post subject:

I've come across stuff like this before. All I remember offhand is doing something to your alsa config to make sure it can handle simultaneous streams. Try searching for "linux alsa simultaneous audio" and variants. If you find something, please share, because I'm interested in documenting it on gentoostudio.org.
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genLin · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2013 Posts: 8 Location: Bochum

Thats what I`ve found. Couldn#t test it yet. I am at work while writing this. Will check this at home later. Maybe thats helping you out? Feedback would be a pleasure.

http://ptspts.blogspot.de/2009/03/how-to-select-alsa-sound-card-and-have.html
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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

genLin · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2013 Posts: 8 Location: Bochum

Pulseaudio was emerged as dependency by steam-meta package using layman -a steamlayer(guess it was called like this)

so it was not my "own"-choice to use or install pulseaudio... my suggestion is,if I delete pulseaudio, steam won't run.
correct me If I am totally wrong..
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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Steam does not need pulseaudio.

genLin · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2013 Posts: 8 Location: Bochum

if you're correct then why is it within the "needed" dependencies? the realpackage name was pulseaudio[alsa] 1.2.6~

btw:

I used ur sound config file u pasted to dropbox. Is it possible to use this with /etc/asound.conf as well?

Thx
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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Ask them, not me. Maybe they simply hadn't tested it without pulseaudio.

/etc/asound.conf should work also, I haven't bothered to test it.

666threesixes666 · Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 3:50 am Post subject:

$HOME/.asoundrc = user
/etc/asound.conf = system wide, ie all users

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Asoundrc

if it works for 1, it works for the other.

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

Pulseaudio in its default configuration (USE=alsa, which is a requirement for it to work at all) attempts to take over your system's sound by dropping config files into /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/ that replace your real sound card with PA ALSA emulation. To fix that, add those files to INSTALL_MASK in make.conf and re-emerge media-plugins/alsa-plugins.

audiodef · Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 8:07 pm Post subject:

Now I remember - it's Paul's ALSA config that helps.
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