Re: [Alsa-user] Built in asound.conf

[James Courtier-D. <Ja...@su...>]

Jason Clouse wrote:
> I've decided to pick up where I left off in rewriting the asound 
> documentation.  But some things appear to have changed.  It looks like 
> there is some kind of "built in" asound.conf.  I haven't created one of 
> my own yet but aplay -L produces a lot of output and there are .conf 
> files in /usr/share/alsa that don't seem to conform to the regular 
> asound.conf format.
> 
> Is this a new ALSA feature or something Gentoo has done?
> 

ALSA has always had that feature.
The configuration is to take config files in this order
/usr/share/alsa
/etc/asoundrc
$home/.asoundrc

Most people should not need their own .asoundrc at all.
ALSA is improving, so now any sound card chip that does not support 
hardware mixing, automatically has dmix enabled.