Ubuntu
alsa-lib package

heaps of ALSA warnings in console

Bug #120691 reported by Joachim Noreiko
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
alsa-lib (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Daniel T Chen

Bug Description

Starting any app from terminal gives ALSA warnings:

ALSA lib confmisc.c:1105:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'defaults.pcm.dmix_format'
ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3957:(snd_config_expand) Args evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2145:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM dmix:CMI8738MC6

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Rerun asoundconf(1) set-default-card.

I'm updating alsa-utils and alsa-lib source packages presently to:
1) echo an informative message to stdout,
2) utilise update-notifier for an informative message.

Changed in alsa-lib:
assignee: nobody → crimsun
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → In Progress
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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

alsa-lib (1.0.14-1ubuntu4) gutsy; urgency=low

  * debian/:
    - libasound2.p{ostinst,rerm}: Install/remove, respectively, the
      update-notifier hook mentioned next,
    - user-must-execute-asoundconf-set-default-card.update-notifier:
      Add this update-notifier hook so that the user is informed that
      he/she needs to execute the asoundconf(1) set-default-card macro,
      because new ALSA configuration presets have been added
      (LP: #120691).

 -- Daniel T Chen <email address hidden> Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:47:17 -0400

Changed in alsa-lib:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Joachim Noreiko (jnoreiko) wrote :

I don't understand what you mean:

joachim@ubuntu:~$ asoundconf(1) set-default-card
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `1'

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Joachim Noreiko (jnoreiko) wrote :

Without the (1) I get:

joachim@ubuntu:~$ asoundconf set-default-card
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/asoundconf", line 445, in <module>
    exit_code(set_default_card(sys.argv[2]))
IndexError: list index out of range

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Are you running feisty? Please read the man page for asoundconf. [The syntax "asoundconf(1)" means the man page, found in man section 1, for the asoundconf utility.] I've already fixed the bug in gutsy's asoundconf that caused the crash you see in your most recent comment.

Quickly, `asoundconf list` returns a list of detected audio devices on the system. Using the `asoundconf set-default-card` macro allows you to set a default audio device. You will then need to restart any native ALSA apps.

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