[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#604725: Bug#604725: alsa-base: when 2 users logged on and 1st plays sound via vlc the other user cant get sound

Elimar Riesebieter riesebie at lxtec.de
Tue Nov 23 22:52:20 UTC 2010


* spamfang [101123 21:48 +0100]:
> Package: alsa-base
> Version: 1.0.23+dfsg-2
> Severity: normal
> Tags: squeeze
> 
> When 1st user plays some music with VLC and the other user tries to play sound
> as well, it wont work. The following message appears:
> 
> Potential ALSA version problem:
> VLC failed to initialize your sound output device (if any).
> Please update alsa-lib to version 1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or higher to try to fix
> this issue.

I suppose this is fixed with vlc 1.1.5. AFAIK this version resides
in experimental.

Elimar

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