[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#522177: subscribe

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:51:50PM +0200, Giacomo Mulas wrote:
> I see the same problem, and I am willing to help.

This seems to be quite differnet bug.

> Apparently, as far as I can tell, the problem is with the esound module:
> when ANY esound client is connected to pulseaudio, pulseaudio keeps the alsa
> device open and locked, so that nothing else can access it. Just even a
> sound monitor (e.g. the one in gkrellm) is enough for this.
> For example, I get:
>
> gmulas at capitanata:~$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/phone.wav ALSA lib 
> pcm_dmix.c:1008:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
> aplay: main:590: audio open error: Device or resource busy

You should redirect your alsa to use pulseuadio as well, see
http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#ALSAApplications

> The apparent effect, when using a gnome desktop with esound enabled, is that
> ONLY applications going through pulseaudio (either directly or via esound
> emulation) can use audio (as originally reported). So the problem is that
> the pulseaudio server is locking the audio device. I have no clue as to why
> this did not happen with the previous pulseaudio version (in sid) and does
> with the latest released one. Please let me know if I can help to solve
> this, as it is annoying (if I need e.g. to use skype I have to kill
> pulseaudio...).

For skype see http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#ALSAApplications/s

  Sjoerd
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