[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#665849: it might be normal

[Jonas Kölker]

I did a bit of experimentation.  I can reproduce your behavior on an almost
fresh install of testing.

Also, if I kill pulseaudio and then run aplay -D hw:0,0 foo.wav, pulseaudio is
running again.

So, my theory is this: the alsa library starts up pulseaudio before any kind
of playback, then tries to open the hw device, but by then pulseaudio has
already monopolized it.  Hence the conflict with -D hw:0,0.  Omitting those
arguments tells alsa to use its default backend---pulseaudio---which works.

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Jonas Kölker <jonaskoelker at gnu.org> <URL:http://jonaskoelker.ignorelist.com>
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