Bug#599462: audiosink-actual-sink-alsa: Unable to set hw params for playback: Invalid argument

[Tim Retout]

severity 599462 normal
thanks

On 13 October 2010 16:02, Ron <ron at debian.org> wrote:
> I can indeed get it to work if I override the device explicitly:
>
>  $ gst-launch-0.10 -vvv audiotestsrc ! alsasink device="hw:1,0"
>
> By default it seems to want to take hw:0,0 which is pcsp.

I think it's reasonable for gstreamer0.10-alsa to use the default
device.  But perhaps it should be checking the capabilities of it
somehow... not sure.  I'll leave the bug on gstreamer for now -
alsa-base seems to have loads of bugs about this already, e.g. #586648
(marked 'wontfix' with the advice to read
/usr/share/doc/alsa-base/README.Debian.gz).

I've had alsa order my pcspkr driver first on some machines.  I think
one workaround is to edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist.conf to
blacklist the driver.  I also seem to have a file
/etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf that I created at some point to get the
right ordering.

-- 
Tim Retout <diocles at debian.org>