Bug#595252: vlc: Says "Please update alsa-lib"

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Wed Sep 8 08:01:13 UTC 2010


Am 08.09.2010 09:49, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> It is an error message that occurs on some hardware when libasound2
> fails to initialize the hardware. From the upstream commit logs I
> understand that upstream themselves cannot really reproduce this probe
> error themselves, but users report this to be fixed in the next alsa-lib
> release. Moreover, the easy workaround is to the pulseaudio output
> module.

Maybe the Debian alsa maintainers can be convinced to backport the 
relevant changes from 1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f to the 1.0.23 package so that 
we can make VLc depend on this specific version.

  - Fabian





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