On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 16:15 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:23:42 -0400,
> Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 15:02 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> > > You put the host specific stuff in /etc/asound.conf
> > > You put the user specific stuff in .asoundrc
> > > Both files are loaded.
> > 
> > Hrm.  Perhaps I'm showing my ignorance in the contents of these files.
> > 
> > Currently my .asoundrc has:
> > 
> >         # ALSA library configuration file
> >         
> >         # Include settings that are under the control of asoundconf(1).
> >         # (To disable these settings, comment out this line.)
> >         </home/brian/.asoundrc.asoundconf>
> > 
> > and my .asoundrc.asoundconf has:
> > 
> >         ALSA library configuration file managed by asoundconf(1).
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >         #
> >         # MANUAL CHANGES TO THIS FILE WILL BE OVERWRITTEN!
> >         #
> >         # Manual changes to the ALSA library configuration should be 
> > implemented
> >         # by editing the ~/.asoundrc file, not by editing this file.
> >         !defaults.pcm.card Live
> >         defaults.ctl.card Live
> >         defaults.pcm.device 0
> >         defaults.pcm.subdevice -1
> >         defaults.pcm.nonblock 1
> >         defaults.pcm.ipc_key 5678293
> >         defaults.pcm.ipc_gid audio
> >         defaults.pcm.ipc_perm 0660
> >         defaults.pcm.dmix_max_periods 0
> >         defaults.rawmidi.card 0
> >         defaults.rawmidi.device 0
> >         defaults.rawmidi.subdevice -1
> >         defaults.hwdep.card 0
> >         defaults.hwdep.device 0
> >         defaults.timer.class 2
> >         defaults.timer.sclass 0
> >         defaults.timer.card 0
> >         defaults.timer.device 0
> >         defaults.timer.subdevice 0
> 
> BTW, any reason to set these values explicitly?

I didn't set anything explicitly.  Apparently (as underlined above)
asoundconf(1) did.

> Except for defaults.pcm.card and defaults.ctl.card, they are not
> necessarily set up at all.  Especially, you should avoid to reset
> ipc_key & co by yourself unless you know exactly what they mean...

I suppose asoundconf(1) knows what they mean.

b.

-- 
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Brian J. Murrell

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