On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
  On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Paul Davis
<paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
  gnome (not gtk) apps use the following gconf
settings for sound output
 system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/audiosink
 system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/chataudiosink
 system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/musicaudiosink 
 I've long had these setup to skip pulseaudio, using alsasink with a
 specific device (see
 
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2010-March/016510.html
 ) :
          <entry name="chataudiosink" mtime="1265693808"
type="string">
                <stringvalue>alsasink
 device="hw:Headset,0"</stringvalue>
        </entry>
        <entry name="musicaudiosink" mtime="1265693856"
type="string">
                <stringvalue>alsasink
device="hw:SB,1"</stringvalue>
        </entry>
        <entry name="audiosrc" mtime="1282881667"
type="string">
                <stringvalue>alsasrc
 device="hw:BCD3000,0"</stringvalue>
        </entry>
        <entry name="audiosink" mtime="1282881208"
type="string">
                <stringvalue>alsasink
device="default"</stringvalue>
        </entry>
 Unfortunately, despite these and other measures in place, I still
 continue seeing signs of attempting to contact pulseaudio first in
 gnome/gstreamer apps: "socket(): Address family not supported by
 protocol" ( e.g.
 
http://www.spinics.net/lists/fedora-music/msg00607.html ) 
sure, and its reasonably easy to at least guess why: what is the
"default" ALSA device on the affected system? what does aplay -D
default do?
i should stress that i *have* pulseaudio installed, and the few gnome
apps that i have on my system (fedora) do not attempt to use it.