[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#342026: alsa-utils: Dmix stopped working.

[Tuomo Valkonen]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.9a-4
Severity: important


After an upgrade today, the dmix plugin stopped working.

    $ mocp 	# or any other program trying to use alsa
    ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:812:(snd_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) requested or auto-format is not available
    ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:831:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to initialize slave

My ~/.asoundrc is the example configuration for using dmix with the
ICE1712 chip (found e.g. at http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DmixPlugin).

# cat ~/.asoundrc
# our ICE1712 dmix:
pcm.ossmix {
    type dmix
    ipc_key 1024
    slave {
    pcm "hw:0,0"
        period_time 0
        period_size 1024
        buffer_size 4096 # buffer size < 6653, but pow(x, 2)
        rate 44100 # we want to play CDs only
    }
    bindings {
        0 0
        1 1
    }
}
# Everything shall be dmixed, so redefine "default":
pcm.!default {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "ossmix"
}
# OSS via aoss should d(mix)stroyed:
pcm.dsp0 {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "ossmix"
}
ctl.mixer0 {
    type hw
    card 0
}



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  dialog                    1.0-20051107-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  libasound2                1.0.10-1       ALSA library
ii  libc6                     2.3.5-8        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5               5.5-1          Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  linux-sound-base          1.0.10-1       base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  module-init-tools         3.2-pre9-4     tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                  2.4.27.0-3     Linux module utilities
ii  pciutils                  1:2.1.11-15.1  Linux PCI Utilities
ii  python                    2.3.5-3        An interactive high-level object-o

Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
ii  alsa-base                     1.0.10-1   ALSA driver configuration files

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