Pulseaudio problems

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 17.11.07 22:30, Jerry James (loganjerry at gmail.com) wrote:

> On Nov 17, 2007 3:35 AM, Paulo Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Sorry if I am writing to the wrong list, but I think this kind of
> > information
> > can be useful for the developers.
> >
> 
> While we're at it, here's a couple more.  When I play music with audacious
> and then also play Freeciv, when Freeciv should make the sound of gunfire,
> it instead makes a hair-raising screech.  Both applications sound fine when
> used separately.  Using them together worked with F7.

What audio API is this "freeciv" thing using?

> Also, XEmacs now crashes any time it tries to make a sound:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=378851

The "ioplug" code in ALSA, which our PA plugin for ALSA is based on is
unfortunately not the most mature code in existence. It has been
around for a while, but we're now the first ones to actually use it
beyond basic testing.

You're probably encountering this bug:

https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2601

Lennart

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