[alsa-devel] Problems with pulseaudio / asla on PS3

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> At Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:21:36 +0200,
> Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 05.09.08 21:02, Kevin Gilbert (kevin952 at tpg.com.au) wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Hi Takashi,
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Takashi Iwai opined:
> > > > Well, it's no bug in softvol, at least.  The softvol doesn't do any
> > > > format or layout conversions.  The layout conversion is done via plug
> > > > plugin applied onto the softvol.
> > > 
> > > OK (not that I fully understand what you have said) but where does that leave 
> > > me? Is there something that I should try? Some ALSA or kernel configuration 
> > > option that might be in error?
> > 
> > Takashi, as Kevin wrote originally, the problem is not that softvol
> > doesn't do any format/layout conversions, but that it claims it
> > does. PA asks softvol for INTERLEAVED samples, softvol agrees to
> > that -- and actually hands us only NONINTERLEAVED samples because it
> > doesn't reformat the from the underlying layer.
> > 
> > So, it *is* a bug in softvol. However, you are right that it doesn't
> > do any conversions.
> 
> Does it happen only with softvol?  For example, try to put any
> other conversion, such as, linear plugin instead of softvol.
> Could you check whether it works?
> 
> Basically softvol does nothing special, just like other normal plugins.
> So I don't think this is specific to softvol.

Also, output from snd_pcm_dump() after initialization (before samples r/w) 
might help us to determine the problem. I'll try to reproduce this 
behavior with the snd-dummy module.

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.