[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#496890: pulseaudio tries to use snd-pcsp with horrible sounding results

[Tim Richardson]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.10-2
Severity: normal

This is in syslog
Aug 28 07:19:47 u400 pulseaudio[18147]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:1 doesn't 
support 44100 Hz, changed to 37286 Hz.

Aug 28 07:19:47 u400 pulseaudio[18147]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:1 doesn't 
support 2 channels, changed to 1. 

I don't know why; another Debian installation on the same computer, also 
with 2.6.26 doesn't have this problem. 

pulseaudio is trying to use the pc speaker device. The sounds are 
horrible, of course. 

I blacklisted snd-pcsp and pulseaudio goes back to using the sound card.

I found more information about the bug from this Ubuntu thread: 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/242966

That thread claims that it is fixed in an ubuntu package with the same 
version as the Lenny version, but obviously this is not what I see. 

How to reproduce:

I don't know, sorry. Is it kernel specific? I don't get it when I boot 
into 2.6.24. 



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
ii  libasound2                    1.0.16-2   ALSA library
ii  libasyncns0                   0.3-1      Asyncronous name service query lib
ii  libc6                         2.7-13     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                       1:1.10-14  support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.1-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libflac8                      1.2.1-1.2  Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libltdl3                      1.5.26-4   A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libogg0                       1.1.3-4    Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  liboil0.3                     0.3.15-1   Library of Optimized Inner Loops
ii  libpulsecore5                 0.9.10-2   PulseAudio sound server core
ii  libsamplerate0                0.1.4-1    audio rate conversion library
ii  libsndfile1                   1.0.17-4   Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libwrap0                      7.6.q-15   Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-19     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio     0.9.7-2     GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libasound2-plugins           1.0.16-1+b1 ALSA library additional plugins
ii  padevchooser                 0.9.3-2     PulseAudio Device Chooser
ii  paprefs                      0.9.6-2     PulseAudio Preferences
ii  pulseaudio-esound-compat     0.9.10-2    PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii  pulseaudio-module-hal        0.9.10-2    HAL device detection module for Pu
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11        0.9.10-2    X11 module for PulseAudio sound se

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
ii  paman                0.9.4-1             PulseAudio Manager
ii  pavucontrol          0.9.6+svn20080426-1 PulseAudio Volume Control
ii  pavumeter            0.9.3-1             PulseAudio Volume Meter
ii  pulseaudio-utils     0.9.10-2            Command line tools for the PulseAu

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