Bug#607062: simpleopal: explicitly -s 'first sound card' doesn't seem to work

[Dallas E. Legan]

Package: simpleopal
Version: 3.6.8~dfsg-2
Severity: normal

With no -s .... , it defaults to the USB (second) sound card, 
which it successfully uses. 
Also if -s "USB  AUDIO  "  is specified sound works.
It also works with the 2nd card if -s /dev/dsp1  is specified.
If -s 'Intel 82801DB-ICH4'  is explicitly specified, the primary (PCI)
soundcard most applications default to using, it complains:

.....
  0:18.216              Pool:0xb6782b70   sound_alsa.cxx(238)   ALSA    Open Failed
  0:18.220              Pool:0xb6782b70         pcss.cxx(290)   PCSS    Could not open sound channel "Intel 82801DB-ICH4" for playing:
  0:18.223              Pool:0xb6782b70   connection.cxx(553)   OpalCon CreateMediaStream returned NULL for session 1 on Call[tfc2d2b061]-EP<pc>[c08d706572]
.........

and there is no sound.
-s /dev/dsp   causes a similar error.
Only if -s 'Default'  is specified does it use the main soundcard,
as would be expected.
This is useable once figured out, but it seems confusing, and led
to wasting much time trying to get a working configuration.
At the least, documenting this and a suggestion to try using
-s Default setting from the start would seem good.
Thanks for any consideration, and working on this package!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages simpleopal depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.11.2-6       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libexpat1                 2.0.1-7        XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.4.5-8      GCC support library
ii  libldap-2.4-2             2.4.23-7       OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libopal3.6.8              3.6.8~dfsg-2   Open Phone Abstraction Library - s
ii  libpt2.6.7                2.6.7-1        Portable Tools Library
ii  libsasl2-2                2.1.23.dfsg1-6 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libsdl1.2debian           1.2.14-6.1     Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libspeexdsp1              1.2~rc1-1      The Speex extended runtime library
ii  libsrtp0                  1.4.4~dfsg-6   Secure RTP (SRTP) and UST Referenc
ii  libssl0.9.8               0.9.8o-3       SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6                4.4.5-8        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

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