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nixos/modules/config/pulseaudio: add support for custom ALSA paths and profiles #102691

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@dmanam dmanam commented Nov 4, 2020 •
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Motivation for this change

This is adapted from Jookia's patch here.

The purpose of these changes is to allow users to change PulseAudio configuration files related to ALSA sound card profiles, which would be stored under /usr/share in a FHS distro. This is necessary to, e.g., enable multiple outputs on a sound card at once, and may also be necessary for certain sound cards which are not supported upstream.

It seems plausible that this patch for PulseAudio could be merged upstream, to decrease the maintenance burden eventually.

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pulseaudio: allow custom ALSA profile and paths directories
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adapted from https://releases.nixos.org/nix-dev/2015-November/018625.html

This allows overriding of the default PulseAudio ALSA configuration,
which is potentially necessary for sound cards with poor upstream
support, as well as for custom profiles.
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nixos/modules/config/pulseaudio: add support for custom ALSA paths an…
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…d profiles

adapted from https://releases.nixos.org/nix-dev/2015-November/018625.html

This allows packages to provide custom profiles, which is potentially
necessary for sound cards with poor upstream support. It also adds a
configuration option for users to define extra profiles in the default
profile set.
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SuperSandro2000 commented Nov 4, 2020 •
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Maybe this should go through staging first but I am not sure.

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dmanam commented Nov 4, 2020

I can rebase it to staging if that would be preferable.

By the way, I submitted the patch upstream, though who knows when or if it'll be reviewed...

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jtojnar commented Nov 5, 2020

Yeah, this being mass rebuild means it should be targetted to staging.

It might also make sense to find the profiles under XDG_DATA_DIRS instead of introducing new variables.

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dmanam commented Nov 5, 2020

Although using XDG_DATA_DIRS would make more sense, it would also involve more substantial changes to the upstream code, as it currently expects to find everything in one directory. Since the environment variables are likely mostly only going to be used within the systemd service anyways, it seems to me like it would be preferable to go with the low-maintenance option.

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dmanam commented Nov 11, 2020

Is there some chance of this getting merged? If modifying the pulseaudio package globally is undesirable, it can be changed to just use the patched version in the service, since the changed code is only called in the server itself anyways.

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hlolli commented Feb 12, 2021

+1 would be nice to be have the ability to add profile-sets, which I'm struggling to do atm. But I guess I can ride with PA_ALSA_PATHS_DIR until this is merged.

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