[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#849203: libasound2: ALSA_PCM_DEVICE environment variable is ignored

[Elimar Riesebieter]

Hi Leszek,

* Leszek Godlewski <lg at inequation.org> [2017-11-04 12:59 +0000]:

> Hi Elimar,
> 
> Apologies for taking so many months to reply, this is unfortunately how
> long it took for the use case to arise again.
> 
> Unfortunately, your fix to asound.conf didn't help. I'm on up-to-date
> Debian testing, and with the contents of asound.conf you suggested (I
> simply copy/pasted the contents of your last email), ALSA apps now report
> this in the console:
> 
> ALSA lib conf.c:1385:(parse_def) device is not a compound
> ALSA lib conf.c:1852:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:4:21:Zły argument
> ALSA lib conf.c:3615:(config_file_open) /etc/asound.conf may be old or
> corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
> ALSA lib conf.c:3537:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load
> returned error: Zły argument
> ALSA lib conf.c:3986:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing
> configuration
> 
> Which means I'm back to my old hack of symlinking /dev/snd/PCMC1D0p to
> /dev/snd/pcmC1D3p again.

your use case is too specific for me. I can't reproduce :-( If you
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Elimar
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