Re: Fedora system-config-soundcard generating broken configs?

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:21 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 20:15 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > This is from a bug report from an FC5 user:
> > 
> > ------- /etc/asound.conf --------
> > #Generated by system-config-soundcard, do not edit by hand
> > #HWCONF
> > #DEV 0
> > pcm.!default { type hw card 0 device 0 } 
> > ctl.!default { type hw card 0 }
> > 
> > Wouldn't this cause the default PCM to be hw:0,0, and cause dmix,
> > dsnoop, etc to be bypassed?
> 
> Yup. 
> 
> On the control panel there is a button that actually says something like
> "disable dmix and dsnoop" and if you click there that's what you get. I
> just tried to be sure. If you uncheck it you get a normal (I hope)
> asound.conf again.

What's the default?

And, shouldn't it have a better label than "disable dmix and dsnoop"?
Like "Prevent multiple applications from accessing the sound device"?

Lee



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