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Bug 290

Summary: SDL should use the default ALSA device on Linux
Product: SDL Reporter: Eike Hein <sho>
Component: audioAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 1.2.8   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.scummvm.org/

Description Eike Hein 2006-08-01 07:39:22 UTC 
The application I use is ScummVM[1], which is a virtual machine for older adventure games that uses SDL extensively. Nor for various reasons I prefer gaming with my USB headset, which in Linux/ALSA acts as an additional sound card device, the second after my PCI sound card. I switch sound cards by setting the USB headset to my default ALSA device in ~ /.asoundrc, which is respected by nearly all applications, but apparently not those that use SDL 1.2.8. Instead, I have to set the AUDIODEV environment variable to "default" to get it to use the USB sound device (relying on those .asoundrc modifications), otherwise it will always use hw:0, which is the PCI sound device. IMO, using the default device would be a more reasonable default - SDL should do that instead of always trying to naively use hw:0, defeating the global user ALSA configuration.
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2006-09-23 21:11:50 UTC 
This is already fixed in SDL 1.2.11