Bug 1072956

Summary: Backport fixes from recent upstream alsa-utils package
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Jaroslav Kysela <jkysela>
Component: alsa-utilsAssignee: Jaroslav Kysela <jkysela>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version: 6.6CC: jfeeney, jkoten, tpelka
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Last Closed: 2014-10-14 08:28:14 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Jaroslav Kysela 2014-03-05 13:33:20 UTC
Update the alsa-utils package to include fixes from upstream. A complete list of patches will follow.

Comment 1 Jaroslav Kysela 2014-06-22 14:12:45 UTC
List of patches from upstream:

 alsamixer: fix handling of removed controls
 aplay: Show usage if no parameter is passed
 amixer: fix rounding of relative changes
 amixer: Fix parsing container TLV entries
 aplay: Add the support for big-endian WAV format (RIFX)
 speaker-test: increase the maximum supported rate to 384000
 amixer: Fix dB value outputs in amixer contents
 alsamixer: Use isatty() to check the terminal
 aplay/arecord: added isatty() check (interactive mode)
 alsactl: safe state store and memory allocation
 alsactl: small code reorder to avoid memory leaks
 Fix several typos in manpage and help strings.
 Several formatting fixes for manpages.
 amixer: fix print_dB for -0.99 .. -0.01 range
 amixer: Print TLV of channel map controls
 amixer: actually print all TLVs in a container TLV
 amixer: fix indentation when printing container TLV
 aplay: fix pcm_read() return value
 aplay: fix timespec to msec conversion
 fix aconnect -l option
 aplay: Fix VU-meter stdout/stderr mess

Comment 5 Jaroslav Kysela 2014-10-01 14:02:40 UTC
A regression was found in bug#916785 .

 http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-utils.git;a=commitdiff;h=8f361d83cfcb39887f5fc591633e68d9448e3425

The patch "aplay: fix pcm_read() return value" should be reverted...

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 08:28:14 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1603.html