Bug 502380

Summary:	alsa-plugins-pulseaudio problems
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David <idht4n>
Component:	alsa-plugins	Assignee:	Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	11	CC:	dave, eric.moret, redhat, st.gross
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Description David 2009-05-24 15:02:02 UTC

Description of problem:
After installing alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, sound
doesn't work on my system and alsamixer is crippled.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. uninstall pulseaudio and get sound working with alsamixer
2. install pulseaudio and alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
3.
  
Actual results:

can't hear output of aplay with file that played before
installing also-plugins-pulse-audio

Also, alsamixer has removed the most of the controls necessary
to get sound working on this system.

Removing alsa-plugins-pulseaudio mostly fixes the problem.  alsamixer
has more settings available but still not as many as without pulseaudio.

Additional info:

This problem has persisted since f8 test.  Here's a link
to an old mailing list thread that discusses this problem.

https://listman.redhat.com/archives/rhl-beta-list/2007-October/msg00677.html
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/rhl-beta-list/2007-October/msg00901.html
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/rhl-beta-list/2007-October/msg00924.html

Comment 1 Eric Moret 2009-05-26 23:03:11 UTC

Reassigning to Lennart who is the upstream maintainer of pulseaudio.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 16:29:23 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 3 David Fogle 2009-06-17 18:19:57 UTC

Time for a  Fedora noob question, where would I get the Rawhide alsa package at? Too much of my life in Debian land.

Comment 4 Eric Moret 2009-06-17 18:50:44 UTC

http://fedora.zero42.at/linux/development/i386/os/Packages/

Comment 5 Lennart Poettering 2009-07-31 14:13:30 UTC

Does this prblem still exist?

Does the stream show up in pavucontrol? Are you sure you are playing it on the right device?

Comment 6 David 2009-08-01 01:52:04 UTC

arecord/aplay seem to be working right now after installing pulseaudio and alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.  I haven't tried rebooting to see if it works after a reboot, but I'm pretty sure it's working better than before.  Skype worked
before installing pulseaudio and does not work now... I get a message
"problem with Audio Playback" when I try to place a call.

I still see a decreased menu of alsamixer options after installing pulseaudio.  Here's the amixer output before:

Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 30 [97%] [-1.50dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 30 [97%] [-1.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 213 [84%] [-8.40dB]
  Front Right: Playback 213 [84%] [-8.40dB]
Simple mixer control 'LFE',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono: Playback 28 [90%] [-4.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 15
  Front Left: Capture 9 [60%] [13.50dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 9 [60%] [13.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Digital',0
  Capabilities: cvolume
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 120
  Front Left: Capture 80 [67%] [10.00dB]
  Front Right: Capture 80 [67%] [10.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
  Capabilities: cenum
  Items: 'Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line'
  Item0: 'Front Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Mux',0
  Capabilities: cvolume
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 4
  Front Left: Capture 3 [75%] [30.00dB]
  Front Right: Capture 3 [75%] [30.00dB]


And here's the amixer output after:
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 45876 [70%] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 45876 [70%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 65536
  Front Left: Capture 59638 [91%] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 58983 [90%] [on]

Comment 7 Lennart Poettering 2009-08-01 16:32:07 UTC

No clue about closed-source Skype. But besdies Skype all problems are fixed now?

Comment 8 David 2009-08-02 04:23:14 UTC

The only thing I use sound for is skype and my kid watches stuff on youtube and cartoon network using a flash plugin that is also closed source.  These all work without pulseaudio and they do not work with pulseaudio AFAICT.  Not sure about anything else except aplay/arecord now do work and alsamixer is crippled.

Comment 9 Lennart Poettering 2009-08-10 20:47:42 UTC

flash nowadays works fine with PA out-of-the box.

If skype is broken, please file a bug against skype. There's not much we can do about it, sicne it is closed source, and the last release is already quite old.

Comment 10 Stephan Groß 2009-08-28 11:54:04 UTC

I have just installed skype 2.1.0.47 beta which solved the problem for me. Please be aware, that you might have to disable Skype's automatic sound configuration to enable your mic.