[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#499040: ia32-libs's libasound lacks pulse plugin

Patrick McFarland diablod3 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 16:53:10 UTC 2008


Package: ia32-libs
Version: 2.7
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


ia32-libs does not include alsa-lib's plugins, so modified alsa behavior (for esample, making alsa do resampling, or making your default alsa device the pulseaudio daemon or the jack daemon) will not work.

The pulse plugin is required to make 32-bit apps work properly on a 'modern' Linux desktop, the others I don't care about as everyone should be using pulse to begin with.

Merely having the 64-bit plugins installed will not work.

ia32-libs already has libpulse, so this is the only change required to make 32-ibt alsa apps use pulse: I manually unpacked i386's libasound2-plugins and put them in /usr/lib32/alsa-lib, and everything worked like it should.

To make pulse device default for alsa apps, put in .asoundrc:
pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ia32-libs depends on:
ii  dpkg                   1.14.22           Debian package management system
ii  lib32asound2           1.0.16-2          ALSA library (32 bit)
ii  lib32gcc1              1:4.3.2-1         GCC support library (32 bit Versio
ii  lib32ncurses5          5.6+20080907-1    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  lib32stdc++6           4.3.2-1           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (3
ii  lib32z1                1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - 32 bit runti
ii  libc6-i386             2.7-13            GNU C Library: 32bit shared librar
ii  lsb-release            3.2-20            Linux Standard Base version report

ia32-libs recommends no packages.

Versions of packages ia32-libs suggests:
ii  ia32-libs-gtk                 2.7        GTK+ ia32 shared libraries

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