[alsa-devel] Alsa plugin unable to be loaded by Pulseaudio

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 09.09.09 21:16, Ng Oon-Ee (ngoonee at gmail.com) wrote:

> The "test" device is defined as follows (should have put it in
> initially).
> 
> pcm.test {
>  type plug
>  slave { pcm "hw:0,0" }
> }
> 
> It works with aplay. My issue is that the pulseaudio server cannot load
> alsa plugins since 1.0.20 (as far as I can tell, ubuntuforums has a
> thread which suggested as such). When I queried the pulse ML, Lennart
> posted the below reply, which I've forwarded here to alsa-devel.
> 
> Basically, the issue as Lennart sees it is summarized by his last 3
> paragraphs (bottom of this mail). He specifies the difference between
> the way alsa is reacting to pulse and the way it 'should'.

After the discussion we had on alsa-devel about the ordering how buffer
size and period size are initialized i have now changed PA git to try
harder to initialize those values. Would be good if you could check if
that actually makes your problem go away.

Lennart

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