At Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:37:09 +0200,
Sjoerd Simons wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The attached patch extends the alsa pulse plugin set with a alsa
> configuration hook. Allowing one to specify some configuration parameters
> that only come into effect when pulseaudio is running.
>
> For example a configution file like:
>
> @hooks [ {
> func on_pulse_is_running
> pcm.!default { type pulse }
> ctl.!default { type pulse }
> }
> ]
>
> will redirect the default alsa pcm and ctl to pulse iff pulse is running.
> (Assuming you defined the hook function correctly ofcourse)
>
> This is usefull for distributions that don't want to force their users to
> switch completely to pulseaudio, but have things a bit more dynamic :)
>
> The solutions isn't optimal though. It will mean that every program loading
> accessing alsa will try to make an (extra) connection to pulse to decide what
> to do. But i think it's the best we can do for now (or at least that i can do
> with my minimal knowledge of alsa).
>
> A nicer solution would be a way to always specify the pulse plugin as default
> and have a sort of fallback for when that fails.
>
> Comments on the patch appreciated :)
This looks pretty interesting.
I forgot that this kind of stuff can be also a plugin :)
Applied to HG tree now.
Thanks!
Takashi
