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McLink Apprentice
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 7:57 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] PulseAudio on top of ALSA/dmix |
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Since nowadays it's getting more common for (mostly proprietary) software to expect PulseAudio to be available, I wanted to figure out if there's a way to use it only where needed, without missing up my existing ALSA setup. As it is, I have an essentially perfect setup where everything uses dmix and I could, if I wanted to, make a dozen applications play their sounds all at once in a horrid cacophony. I want to add PulsaAudio-only applications to that cacophony, without requiring me to reconfigure my whole system to use PA -- i.e. I want PA to output to dmix, so that saner applications can continue to use ALSA at the same time, and I can handle the volume through ALSA as well. So my question is: is this possible (within reasonable values of "possible", of course), and if so, how do I do it?
One caveat: my system uses OpenRC and eudev. I am not touching that steaming pile of 馬屎 systemd (*spits on ground*) with a forty-foot barge pole.
Normally I'd just try to figure it out myself (that's part of what makes Gentoo fun!), but at this moment I have precious little time, so I want to make sure this is even doable before I go and hose my perfect setup.
Thanks in advance! _________________
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Logicien Veteran
Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 1555 Location: Montréal
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 2:21 am Post subject: |
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/etc/asound.conf and /etc/libao.conf files can be set to use Alsa/Dmix by default. Than configure your multimedia applications to use Alsa by default. It will reduce the need to use Pulseaudio when possible.
For applications who must use Pulseaudio, you have an answer at 4.1.1 ALSA/dmix without grabbing hardware device. _________________ Paul
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McLink Apprentice
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 6:45 am Post subject: |
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Excellent! I'll try it out once I get the time, then.
ETA: actually, I had some time to spare just now, and it all went smoothly! Cheers! _________________
Mc'abit wrote: | Islam isn't the problem, religion is. |
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