[Nix-dev] Removing PulseAudio from KDE 4.4

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 09/23/2010 05:25 PM, roconnor at theorem.ca wrote:

> I want to mention to those intersted, that I have locally removed pulseaudio
> from my build inputs to phonon in KDE 4.4 and my audio life has become
> considerably simpler.
> 
> I'm not proposing that my attached patch be put into nixpkgs, but for those
> people, who like me, have problems with audio in KDE getting routed to their PC
> speaker rather than their HDA Intel device, but where alsa works fine (i.e.
> aplay works but paplay doesn't work)

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:

  boot.blacklistedKernelModules = [ "snd_pcsp" ];

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