[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#428201: alsa-base: some audio apps fails with dmix error

[Prakash J Kokkatt]

Subject: alsa-base: some audio apps fails with dmix error
Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.13-5
Severity: normal

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running Debian Sid.some audio apps like beep-media-player errors out as
below,when i have Enlightened Sound daemon enabled in GNOME preferences.
error as below.

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

jaguar:~# lspci -v |grep audio
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation
82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 04)

also realplayer hangs while playing audios.I have to manually restart
alsa to get audio working normal.below is the restart alsa output:

jaguar:~# service alsa force-reload
Terminating processes: 3179 3245.
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec
snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-page-alloc.
Loading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec
snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-page-alloc.


-- Package-specific info:
--- Begin additional package status ---
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  libasound2     1.0.13-2       ALSA library
--- End additional package status ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/version ---
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14rc3 (Wed Mar 14
07:25:50 2007 UTC).
--- End /proc/asound/version ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/cards ---
 0 [ICH6           ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH6
                      Intel ICH6 with ALC655 at irq 21
--- End /proc/asound/cards ---
--- Begin /dev/snd/ listing ---
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  0 2007-06-09 13:39 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 2007-06-09 13:39 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 2007-06-09 13:39 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 25 2007-06-09 13:39 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 26 2007-06-09 13:39 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 27 2007-06-09 13:39 pcmC0D3c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 20 2007-06-09 13:39 pcmC0D4p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 2007-06-09 13:39 timer
--- End /dev/snd/ listing ---

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (50, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-pjk1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  linux-sound-base           1.0.13-5      base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsof                       4.78.dfsg.1-2 List open files
ii  module-init-tools          3.3-pre11-1   tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages alsa-base recommends:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.13-2   ALSA utilities

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.6~20070518-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

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