The recently added variable period-size feature for dmix & co seems causing a regression on some old applications; e.g. Audacious aborts with an error:

ALSA error: snd_pcm_hw_params_set_buffer_time_near failed: Invalid argument.

As a quick fix, disable the feature as default. One can still enable it via asoundrc.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1033179 Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de --- src/pcm/pcm_direct.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/pcm/pcm_direct.c b/src/pcm/pcm_direct.c index 8a75c421dd7b..89468d3537d0 100644 --- a/src/pcm/pcm_direct.c +++ b/src/pcm/pcm_direct.c @@ -1875,7 +1875,7 @@ int snd_pcm_direct_parse_open_conf(snd_config_t *root, snd_config_t *conf, rec->ipc_gid = -1; rec->slowptr = 1; rec->max_periods = 0; - rec->var_periodsize = 1; + rec->var_periodsize = 0; rec->direct_memory_access = 1;

/* read defaults */