[arch-general] Alsa Softvol and MOC

[Christoph Gysin]

Alsa itself has a pulseaudio plugin. So applications using alsa will
be routed through pulseaudio.

I tried to find the source for that plugin, but couldn't find it.
Maybe it was removed from alsa-plugins upstream? Or merged into
another plugin?

What is preventing speakup from using pulseaudio?

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy,
> No, I don't have pulseaudio installed. I actually can't use it because it
> will not allow me to use speakup in the console.  Interestingly enough, I
> read something that said moc doesn't have support for pulseaudio. So, I must
> have found outdated info.
> Still, I wonder if we are missing a plugin in alsa itself?
> thanks
> Storm
>
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 03:09:38PM +0300, Christoph Gysin wrote:
>>
>> Are you using pulseaudio? This works out of the box for me with
>> pulseaudio. moc controls the volume of whatever was the default sink
>> when it was started.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Storm Dragon
>> <stormdragon2976 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Howdy,
>>> I have installed extra/moc 1:2.5.0-3. Reading through the docs, and
>>> things
>>> on the net, I found a way to set up a softvol control for it in alsa, so
>>> when I adjust its volume, it only changes the volume for moc. Everything
>>> went well, except, I can't adjust the volume from within the moc app,
>>> which
>>> should be possible because you can set the alsa device and mixer in the
>>> ~/.moc/config file.
>>> It is using the right device, and amixer sset Mocmaster 50% sets the
>>> volume.
>>> It's just the in program controls that fail. When moc starts, it gives
>>> this
>>> error:
>>> ALSA lib dlmisc.c:254:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library
>>> /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_softvol.so
>>> This makes me think that either a plugin is missing from alsa-plugins, or
>>> maybe moc is using an outdated way to change its volume. However, if the
>>> alsa controls are set to their defaults, the volume works fine, but it
>>> lowers the volume on the whole system.
>>> I did a pacman search for alsa softvol but it didn't return anything. Is
>>> there anything I can install to fix this?
>>> Thanks for any help
>>> Storm
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