Bug 704772

Summary: Bugs in alsa-lib prevent the audacious alsa output plugin from working.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Steve Holland <sh1>
Component: alsa-libAssignee: Jaroslav Kysela <jkysela>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version: 6.0CC: tpelka
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Description Steve Holland 2011-05-14 20:06:10 UTC 
Created attachment 498957 [details]
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Description of problem:
Bugs in alsa-lib prevent the audacious alsa output plugin from working. 
For example, on running audacious with the ALSA output plugin selected, you get:  
  ALSA lib pcm.c:221:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
and no sound is generated

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
alsa-lib-1.0.21-3

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build audacious
2. Try to play through ALSA plugin
3.
  
Actual results:
Error message and no sound

Expected results:
Sound playback

Additional info:

Applying the patches from this page: 
  http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2009-October/022505.html
solves the problem. 

The patches are attached
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 18:00:08 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-2011-1719.html