[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#611533: Bug#611533: alsa-base: version issue: kernel provides 1.0.21 drivers, alsa is 1.0.23

[Brice Rebsamen]

About 5 days ago the sound disappeared on VLC, mozilla flash player
(youtube videos and the likes), XINE, MPlayer, Kaffeine, but NOT from
Amarok, Skype and Dragon media player... i.e. if I play a video I get
the image but not the sound

VLC reports an error about a version issue with ALSA lib, but not the
other applications.

I posted the problem on linuxquestion first:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-desktop-74/sound-suddenly-disappeared-from-some-applications-859160/
And I was advised to diagnose with alsa-info.sh. The output is here:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=7596318b68885a0702cea56188b874af2191c2a8

Regards
Brice


On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie at lxtec.de> wrote:
> severity 611533 minor
> thanks
>
>
> * brice.brice+linux at gmail.com [110130 21:52 +0800]:
>> Package: alsa-base
>> Version: 1.0.23+dfsg-2
>> Severity: important
>> Tags: squeeze
>>
>> This mutes some applications (vlc, flash plugin, mplayer, etc.)
>> I fixed by compiling my own module:
>> m-a a-i alsa
>
> Hmm, the driver version doesn't depend on alsa-basw's package
> version. What does "mutes some applications" mean?
>
> AFAIK 1.0.23 drivers where introduced in 2.6.33 or so.
>
> Elimar
>
>
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