[Nix-dev] Removing PulseAudio from KDE 4.4

[roconnor at theorem.ca]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Michael Raskin wrote:

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> On 09/23/2010 07:40 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
>> I had a somewhat similar problem on my Asus eeePC, namely that the PC speaker
>> device was the default ALSA sound device, which is inconvenient.  This was not
>> related to PulseAudio, however.  My solution was to add this to the NixOS
>> configuration:
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>>   boot.blacklistedKernelModules = [ "snd_pcsp" ];
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> Another solution is to put your real sound card module as the first
> element of boot.kernelModules.

Personally I do

   boot.extraModprobeConfig = "options snd slots=snd-hda-intel"

This gets sound to work nicely in ALSA (so that the HDA Intel device is 
default).  But, as you can see, it wasn't enough to make pulseaudio to 
pick it as the default device.

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