Tidbits from my daily-life » hard heron http://blog.morgan.hk Bits and things of interest Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:32:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Get ALSA enabled programs to use Pulse Audio in Hardy Heron http://blog.morgan.hk/2008/05/11/get-alsa-enabled-programs-to-use-pulse-audio-in-hardy-heron/ http://blog.morgan.hk/2008/05/11/get-alsa-enabled-programs-to-use-pulse-audio-in-hardy-heron/#comments Sat, 10 May 2008 18:28:48 +0000 morgan http://blog.morgan.hk/?p=281 After re-installing my system today I realise that all my ALSA apps were not making a tweet. I remembered that using Pulse on my previous system (Ubuntu Gusty Gibbon) was working properly, but i had to do some trickery for the ALSA apps to use Pulse. Looking back into my backup files here is what I would recommend:

edit /etc/asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc:

pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}

and then:

sudo apt-get install libasound2-plugins

and you should be good to go.

You might also add some more GUI tools to configure PulseAudio:

sudo apt-get install padevchooser paman paprefs pavucontrol pavumeter

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