Ben Klein wrote: > 2009/5/1 Susan Cragin <susancra...@earthlink.net>: >>> I filed ubuntu bug 369762. >> Ubuntu didn't think much of my bug. They sent me the following recipe to >> cure it, and marked the bug invalid. >> >> 1) Edit /etc/pulse/client.conf, and change "autospawn = yes" to "autospawn = >> no" >> 2) `touch $HOME/.pulse_a11y_nostart' >> 3) `asoundconf list' >> 4) choose the desired card from the previous command's output, and use >> `asoundconf set-default-card CARD', replacing CARD as appropriate >> 5) `killall pulseaudio' >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/348353 >> mentions a recent kernel patch that routes all audio through pulse. I wonder >> if this patch is the culprit? > > It mentions a patch, not a kernel patch. I'd be *very* surprised if > there was anything kernel-side specifically routing audio through There is a kernel patch to reroute character devices to user space; afair that patch is already in. The usage example I have seen given for that patch is to reroute /dev/dsp to pulseaudio.
> pulse. More plausibly, it could be a libasound2 patch or even just a > hack to asound.conf/.asoundrc. bye michael