Dear All,<br><br>I can confirm that this has been discovered upstream and patched in the master at the alsa project.<br>Version 1.0.24 of alsa-utils changed the default behaviour of aplay.<br><br>This has broken ( at least on some installations including mine) - the festival package.<br>
Jean-Phillipe Mengual and I have moved to maintaining festival in the last week after a request from the previous<br>maintainers (Kumar and Kartik).<br>The festival package by default drives aplay for its sound output.<br>
I have successfully tested the upstream patch which went into the master and it repairs aplay <br>and thus the default festival sound output method.<br>The festival reference for this is bug #638691.<br><br>I attach the patch which was added at the upstream alsa project by Takashi Iwai.<br>
His discussion can be found at<br><pre class="message"><a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.devel/85332">http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.devel/85332</a><br><br>Is there any chance that we can ensure that wheezy does not freeze (when that time comes) without either<br>
this patch being applied or a more recent version of alsa-utils shipping (if it has been shipped)?<br><br>If not should we at festival be changing the default sound output of festival (to something like native alsa or pulse)<br>
to circumvent the need for aplay?<br><br>with the very best of regards,<br>Peter<br><br> </pre><br><br><br>