Bug 308697

Summary:	media-plugins/alsa-plugins: improve Pulseaudio support
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Fabio Erculiani (RETIRED) <lxnay>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo ALSA team <alsa-bugs>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	flameeyes
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	308701
Bug Blocks:
Attachments:	alsa-plugins-1.0.22.ebuild patch ${FILESDIR}/pulse/pulse-alsa.conf ${FILESDIR}/pulse/pulse.conf

Description Fabio Erculiani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-09 17:43:34 UTC

Following upstream (and Ubuntu) directions, I've been able to improve PulseAudio ALSA plugin in a way that it eventually works fine with applications using PA directly.
A simple use case: watch a YT video with <your fav. browser> (thus using flash nsplugin) while listening to music with Audacious2 or Amarok. With the current setup, this causes the nsplugin to take over sound devices completely, since alsa is not properly configured to use PA when available.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Fabio Erculiani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-09 17:44:03 UTC

Created attachment 222863 [details, diff]
alsa-plugins-1.0.22.ebuild patch

Comment 2 Fabio Erculiani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-09 17:44:45 UTC

Created attachment 222865 [details]
${FILESDIR}/pulse/pulse-alsa.conf

Comment 3 Fabio Erculiani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-09 17:45:03 UTC

Created attachment 222867 [details]
${FILESDIR}/pulse/pulse.conf

Comment 4 Fabio Erculiani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-09 17:57:57 UTC

Note: pulse.conf contains absolute path to PA alsa lib because its dirname is not in ld.so.conf nor in ALSA stuff using it (upstream bug or feature?). Ubuntu uses to place a ld.so.conf entry to address this issue, by the way.

Comment 5 Fabio Erculiani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-22 10:57:42 UTC

ALSA team? Can I merge the patches?

Comment 6 Fabio Erculiani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-05-23 13:21:57 UTC

This bug is rotting! Please do something.

Comment 7 Fabio Erculiani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-05-28 18:44:40 UTC

Since nobody is responding here, I did it myself.


+*alsa-plugins-1.0.23-r1 (28 May 2010)
+
+  28 May 2010; Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@gentoo.org>
+  -alsa-plugins-1.0.23.ebuild, +alsa-plugins-1.0.23-r1.ebuild,
+  +files/pulse.conf, +files/pulse-alsa.conf:
+  inject default working pulseaudio configuration, close bug #308697
+