[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#827636: libasound2: ALSA lib control.c:954:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL pulse

[Elimar Riesebieter]

Control: reassign -1 libasound2-plugins
Control: severity -1 minor

* Lev Livnev <lev.livnev at gmail.com> [2016-06-18 23:45 +0100]:

> Package: libasound2
> Version: 1.1.1-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> 
> After the update to libasound2 version 1.1.1-1 from 1.1.0-1, it is no longer
> possible to control audio, the below command, which should adjust the audio
> levels, fails with the following error:
> 
> ~/ amixer -D pulse sset Master 5%+
> ALSA lib control.c:954:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL pulse
> amixer: Mixer attach pulse error: No such file or directory

Since libasound2-plugins 1.1.1 we don't install 50-pulseaudio.conf
anymore. So the device pulse isn't available anymore by Debian's
default config. See also
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739329.

$ amixer sset Master 5%+
should adjust the default advice as wanted.

Elimar
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