[Bug 216894] [NEW] artsd in hardy is not correcly configured by default to work with pulseaudio

[Pablo Estigarribia]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: arts

By default arts is in autodetect, but for some reason it uses alsa instead of use esd as a driver output. For this reason when I'm playing sound KDE application can't get sound system working. 
I changed arts to work with esd, I installed kcontrol to do it later I read in pulseaudio.org that we can change it for all the users by default. 

See this information:

KDE ¶

KDE 3 uses the artsd sound server by default. However, artsd itself can
be configured to use an Esound backend. Edit kcmartsrc (either in
/etc/kde or /usr/share/config for global configuration or
.kde/share/config to configure only one user) like this:

[Arts]
Arguments=\s-F 10 -S 4096 -a esd -n -s 1 -m artsmessage -c drkonqi -l 3 -f
NetworkTransparent=true
SuspendTime=1

KDE 4 uses Phonon as the main audio interface. The Xine backend of
Phonon should eventually use PulseAudio automatically, but at the time
of writing the pulse plugin for Xine is too unreliable, so it's disabled
by default. While waiting for that to get better, Phonon uses Alsa.
Therefore, to get Phonon to use PulseAudio, you have to edit your
~/.asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf. However, the normal .asoundrc
modifications aren't enough. See #232 (specifically the workaround
part).


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I think it should be done by default in arts package.

Br,

Pablo.

** Affects: arts (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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artsd in hardy is not correcly configured by default to work with pulseaudio
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