[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#529290: pulseaudio: can't select non-iec958 profiles

[Arno Schuring]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.15-1
Severity: normal

Since installation of 0.9.15-1 (0.9.14 worked without problems) I can not use
pulseaudio in its default configuration with my soundcard (Terratec EWS88 MT).
Like #522177 (where I reported this first), I received no error messages, no
indication that anything is wrong, but still got no sound.

If I understand correctly, pulseaudio tries to get different configuration
profiles from the ALSA information (seen with pulseaudio -vv). In my case,
there are no profiles for the analog outputs. Pulseaudio will log lines like:

D: alsa-util.c: Checking for playback on analog-stereo (front)
D: alsa-util.c: Trying front:0 with SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ...
D: alsa-util.c: Trying front:0 without SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ...
D: alsa-util.c: Trying plug:front:0 with SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ...
D: alsa-util.c: Trying plug:front:0 without SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ...
I: alsa-util.c: Failed to set hardware parameters on plug:front:0: Invalid argument

However, it does find configuration profiles for the digital inputs and
outputs:

D: alsa-util.c: Checking for playback on iec958-stereo (iec958)
D: alsa-util.c: Trying iec958:0 with SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ...
[...]
D: alsa-util.c: Checking for capture on iec958-stereo (iec958)
D: alsa-util.c: Trying iec958:0 with SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ...
I: module-alsa-card.c: Found output profile 'Output Digital Stereo (IEC958)
 + Input Digital Stereo (IEC958)'


And as a result, the only profiles available will be the digital ones (as seen
on the rightmost tab in pavucontrol). My workaround is to disable
module-hal-detect and manually load-module module-alsa-sink, which works but is
not how I want things to work (or how I think it should work).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (550, 'stable'), (101, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser      3.110                       add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit   0.3.0-2                     framework for defining and trackin
ii  libasound2   1.0.19-1                    shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libasyncns0  0.3-1                       Asyncronous name service query lib
ii  libc6        2.9-4                       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap2      1:2.16-5                    support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libdbus-1-3  1.2.12-1                    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libflac8     1.2.1-1.2                   Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libgdbm3     1.8.3-4                     GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  libhal1      0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libice6      2:1.0.5-1                   X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libltdl7     2.2.6a-4                    A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libogg0      1.1.3-5                     Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  liboil0.3    0.3.15-1                    Library of Optimized Inner Loops
ii  libpolkit-db 0.9-3                       library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2   0.9-3                       library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libpulse0    0.9.15-1                    PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsamplerat 0.1.7-2                     audio rate conversion library
ii  libsm6       2:1.1.0-2                   X11 Session Management library
ii  libsndfile1  1.0.18-2                    Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libspeexdsp1 1.2~rc1-1                   The Speex extended runtime library
ii  libvorbis0a  1.2.0.dfsg-4                The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc 1.2.0.dfsg-4                The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libwrap0     7.6.q-16                    Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6     2:1.2.1-1                   X11 client-side library
ii  libxtst6     2:1.0.3-1                   X11 Testing -- Resource extension 
ii  lsb-base     3.2-22                      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio      0.10.14-2  GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.19-2   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      0.9.15-1   PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii  pulseaudio-module-hal         0.9.15-1   HAL device detection module for Pu
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11         0.9.15-1   X11 module for PulseAudio sound se

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
ii  paman                         0.9.4-1    PulseAudio Manager
ii  pavucontrol                   0.9.8-1    PulseAudio Volume Control
ii  pavumeter                     0.9.3-1    PulseAudio Volume Meter
ii  pulseaudio-utils              0.9.15-1   Command line tools for the PulseAu

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