Activity log for bug #198453

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2008-03-04 18:34:42 Evgeny Kuznetsov bug added bug
2008-03-16 20:23:30 Anders pulseaudio: status New Confirmed
2008-04-01 14:49:27 Sense Egbert Hofstede bug assigned to pulseaudio
2008-04-02 15:34:00 Bug Watch Updater pulseaudio: status Unknown New
2008-04-14 22:01:10 Alexander Jones description Binary package hint: pulseaudio On latest Hardy amd64 running on Lenovo N100 laptop with Intel HDA sound card sound does work through PulseAudio, but programs relying on ALSA don't work properly. For example, aplay always reports that alsa device is busy. VLC doesn't produce any sound. So does Twinkle as well. Creating /etc/asound.conf as suggested in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio (this file is not created by default) doesn't help too much. In this case, aplay works as intended. VLC produces sound, too, but on attempt to stop playing PulseAudio hangs completely. Skype doesn't produce any sound. Twinkle produces no sound output, though microphone works correctly. Steps to reproduce: Run both of these at the same time: gst-launch-0.10 audiotestsrc ! pulsesink gst-launch-0.10 audiotestsrc ! alsasink If your default sound device does not support hardware mixing, the second command will fail. ALSA cannot use the device while PulseAudio is using it, and this affects a lot of applications. Note that if you run the commands the other way around, alsalib will use dmix, and then so will pulseaudio, so there is not as much of a problem this way around (except for the fact that dmix and PA are doing the same job, and you can not control the ALSA-using apps' volumes and routing with PA.) Resolution: Follow http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#ALSAApplications i.e. install /etc/asound.conf with: pcm.pulse { type pulse } ctl.pulse { type pulse } pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse } Note, too, that there are some applications that fail with ALSA->Pulse, in particular, SDL seems to hang with Neverball. These bugs can be addressed seperately in due course.
2008-04-14 22:01:10 Alexander Jones title PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly Default ALSA device must use PulseAudio, otherwise ALSA applications may fail
2008-04-14 22:04:15 Travis Watkins pulseaudio: status New Invalid
2008-04-14 22:06:50 Travis Watkins pulseaudio: importance Undecided High
2008-04-14 22:06:50 Travis Watkins pulseaudio: milestone ubuntu-8.04
2008-04-16 04:09:42 Steve Langasek bug assigned to alsa-lib (Ubuntu)
2008-04-16 04:16:45 Steve Langasek pulseaudio: status Confirmed Invalid
2008-04-16 04:16:45 Steve Langasek pulseaudio: milestone ubuntu-8.04
2008-04-16 04:17:18 Steve Langasek alsa-lib: importance Undecided High
2008-04-16 04:17:18 Steve Langasek alsa-lib: status New Confirmed
2008-04-16 04:17:18 Steve Langasek alsa-lib: milestone ubuntu-8.04
2008-04-18 15:04:16 Alexander Jones description Steps to reproduce: Run both of these at the same time: gst-launch-0.10 audiotestsrc ! pulsesink gst-launch-0.10 audiotestsrc ! alsasink If your default sound device does not support hardware mixing, the second command will fail. ALSA cannot use the device while PulseAudio is using it, and this affects a lot of applications. Note that if you run the commands the other way around, alsalib will use dmix, and then so will pulseaudio, so there is not as much of a problem this way around (except for the fact that dmix and PA are doing the same job, and you can not control the ALSA-using apps' volumes and routing with PA.) Resolution: Follow http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#ALSAApplications i.e. install /etc/asound.conf with: pcm.pulse { type pulse } ctl.pulse { type pulse } pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse } Note, too, that there are some applications that fail with ALSA->Pulse, in particular, SDL seems to hang with Neverball. These bugs can be addressed seperately in due course. Steps to reproduce: Run both of these at the same time: gst-launch-0.10 audiotestsrc ! pulsesink gst-launch-0.10 audiotestsrc ! alsasink If your default sound device does not support hardware mixing, the second command will fail. ALSA cannot use the device while PulseAudio is using it, and this affects a lot of applications. Note that if you run the commands the other way around, alsalib will use dmix, and then so will pulseaudio, so there is not as much of a problem this way around (except for the fact that dmix and PA are doing the same job, and you can not control the ALSA-using apps' volumes and routing with PA.) Resolution: Follow http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#ALSAApplications i.e. install /etc/asound.conf with: pcm.pulse { type pulse } ctl.pulse { type pulse } pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse } Note, too, that there are some applications that fail with ALSA->Pulse: SDL seems to hang with neverball, but that is fixed by installing the PulseAudio backend for SDL (libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio), which will replace the default ALSA backend. WINE has its own issues with regards to device selection, which I don't know a remedy for. Skype also has its own problems, but these aren't fixable by us and should not block us, though should be given some consideraton.
2008-04-30 19:49:28 Steve Langasek alsa-lib: milestone ubuntu-8.04 ubuntu-8.04.1
2008-05-15 12:41:11 Conn O Griofa description Steps to reproduce: Run both of these at the same time: gst-launch-0.10 audiotestsrc ! pulsesink gst-launch-0.10 audiotestsrc ! alsasink If your default sound device does not support hardware mixing, the second command will fail. ALSA cannot use the device while PulseAudio is using it, and this affects a lot of applications. Note that if you run the commands the other way around, alsalib will use dmix, and then so will pulseaudio, so there is not as much of a problem this way around (except for the fact that dmix and PA are doing the same job, and you can not control the ALSA-using apps' volumes and routing with PA.) Resolution: Follow http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#ALSAApplications i.e. install /etc/asound.conf with: pcm.pulse { type pulse } ctl.pulse { type pulse } pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse } Note, too, that there are some applications that fail with ALSA->Pulse: SDL seems to hang with neverball, but that is fixed by installing the PulseAudio backend for SDL (libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio), which will replace the default ALSA backend. WINE has its own issues with regards to device selection, which I don't know a remedy for. Skype also has its own problems, but these aren't fixable by us and should not block us, though should be given some consideraton. Steps to reproduce: Run both of these at the same time: gst-launch-0.10 audiotestsrc ! pulsesink gst-launch-0.10 audiotestsrc ! alsasink If your default sound device does not support hardware mixing, the second command will fail. ALSA cannot use the device while PulseAudio is using it, and this affects a lot of applications. Note that if you run the commands the other way around, alsalib will use dmix, and then so will pulseaudio, so there is not as much of a problem this way around (except for the fact that dmix and PA are doing the same job, and you can not control the ALSA-using apps' volumes and routing with PA.) Resolution: Follow http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#ALSAApplications i.e. install /etc/asound.conf with: pcm.pulse { type pulse } ctl.pulse { type pulse } pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse } Then, install the package "libasound2-plugins", as it contains the required "pcm_pulse" and "ctl_pulse" plugins. Note, too, that there are some applications that fail with ALSA->Pulse: SDL* seems to hang with neverball, but that is fixed by installing the PulseAudio backend for SDL (libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio), which will replace the default ALSA backend. WINE has its own issues with regards to device selection, which I don't know a remedy for. Skype* also has its own problems, but these aren't fixable by us and should not block us, though should be given some consideraton. * SDL applications (using libsdl1.2-alsa backend), Skype and possibly other misbehaving applications work properly with later versions of libasound2 & libasound2-plugins from Debian unstable.
2008-05-27 14:24:38 Daniel T Chen alsa-lib: status Confirmed Fix Released
2008-05-27 14:24:38 Daniel T Chen alsa-lib: importance High Medium
2008-05-27 14:24:38 Daniel T Chen alsa-lib: milestone ubuntu-8.04.1
2008-05-27 14:25:16 Daniel T Chen bug assigned to alsa-plugins (Ubuntu)
2008-05-27 14:25:52 Daniel T Chen alsa-plugins: status New Fix Released
2008-05-27 14:25:52 Daniel T Chen alsa-plugins: importance Undecided Medium
2008-06-01 00:54:28 mercutio22 pulseaudio: status Invalid Confirmed
2008-06-05 20:37:29 Alexander Sack alsa-lib: status New Incomplete
2008-06-05 20:37:52 Alexander Sack alsa-plugins: status New Incomplete
2008-06-05 20:38:21 Alexander Sack pulseaudio: status New Invalid
2008-08-17 00:45:19 Conn O Griofa pulseaudio: status Invalid Confirmed
2008-08-25 20:13:28 Daniel T Chen pulseaudio: importance High Medium
2008-08-25 20:13:28 Daniel T Chen pulseaudio: statusexplanation Rationale: if this bug is to be fixed effectively, the pulseaudio package is the optimal package to initialize the "asoundconf set-pulseaudio" macro per-user - trying to set the macro in alsa-utils/alsa-lib/alsa-plugins will result in problems for Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and other derivatives that do not integrate PulseAudio by default. Marking as Confirmed.
2008-10-16 00:42:13 Daniel T Chen pulseaudio: status Confirmed Fix Released
2008-10-16 00:42:13 Daniel T Chen pulseaudio: statusexplanation All the necessary components are in place currently in 8.10, so closing pulseaudio task.
2008-10-18 21:18:13 Toby Smithe bug added attachment '.asoundrc.asoundconf' (.asoundrc.asoundconf)
2009-03-31 04:27:23 Mary Gardiner removed subscriber Mary Gardiner
2009-06-05 03:11:24 Jacob Peddicord removed subscriber Jacob Peddicord
2009-07-08 17:51:41 Nerd_bloke removed subscriber Nerd_bloke
2009-12-02 17:59:10 Michael Onnen removed subscriber Michael Onnen
2009-12-09 18:58:35 ariadacapo alsa-lib (Ubuntu): status Fix Released Confirmed
2009-12-09 18:58:51 ariadacapo alsa-lib (Ubuntu Hardy): status Incomplete Confirmed
2009-12-09 18:58:59 ariadacapo alsa-plugins (Ubuntu): status Fix Released Confirmed
2009-12-09 18:59:05 ariadacapo alsa-plugins (Ubuntu Hardy): status Incomplete Confirmed
2009-12-09 18:59:25 ariadacapo pulseaudio (Ubuntu): status Fix Released Confirmed
2009-12-09 18:59:32 ariadacapo pulseaudio (Ubuntu Hardy): status Invalid Confirmed
2009-12-10 10:27:15 Hew alsa-lib (Ubuntu): status Confirmed Fix Released
2009-12-10 10:27:27 Hew alsa-lib (Ubuntu Hardy): status Confirmed Incomplete
2009-12-10 10:27:33 Hew alsa-plugins (Ubuntu): status Confirmed Fix Released
2009-12-10 10:27:41 Hew alsa-plugins (Ubuntu Hardy): status Confirmed Incomplete
2009-12-10 10:27:49 Hew pulseaudio (Ubuntu Hardy): status Confirmed Invalid
2009-12-10 10:27:53 Hew pulseaudio (Ubuntu): status Confirmed Fix Released
2009-12-12 11:48:10 Stefan Ratschan removed subscriber Stefan Ratschan
2010-01-10 15:03:14 edalb removed subscriber Juanjo Benages
2010-02-25 22:54:04 CargoPVD pulseaudio (Ubuntu): status Fix Released Fix Committed
2010-02-25 22:54:14 CargoPVD alsa-lib (Ubuntu): status Fix Released New
2010-02-25 22:54:18 CargoPVD alsa-plugins (Ubuntu): status Fix Released New
2010-02-25 22:54:27 CargoPVD pulseaudio (Ubuntu): status Fix Committed New
2010-02-25 23:07:54 Daniel T Chen pulseaudio: status Confirmed Invalid
2010-02-25 23:08:00 Daniel T Chen alsa-lib (Ubuntu Hardy): status Incomplete Won't Fix
2010-02-25 23:08:06 Daniel T Chen alsa-plugins (Ubuntu Hardy): status Incomplete Won't Fix
2010-02-25 23:08:17 Daniel T Chen alsa-plugins (Ubuntu): status New Fix Released
2010-02-25 23:08:27 Daniel T Chen alsa-lib (Ubuntu): status New Won't Fix
2010-02-25 23:08:37 Daniel T Chen pulseaudio (Ubuntu): status New Invalid
2010-02-25 23:09:36 Daniel T Chen pulseaudio (Ubuntu): status Invalid Fix Released
2010-02-25 23:09:42 Daniel T Chen alsa-plugins (Ubuntu): status Fix Released Won't Fix
2010-02-25 23:09:54 Daniel T Chen pulseaudio (Ubuntu Hardy): status Invalid Won't Fix
2012-02-23 22:05:01 Kai Kasurinen removed subscriber Kai Kasurinen