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From: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Cc: "Fred ." <eldmannen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Audio on Linux is a mess
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:35:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810200835.25706.marek.vasut@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f188924b0810170624k78e74116o19fba5adb0eaf533@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday 17 of October 2008 15:24:20 Fred . wrote:
> ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Timeout
> ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Timeout
> AL lib: alsa.c:344: Could not open playback device 'default': Connection
> refused AL lib: oss.c:179: Could not open /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
> File
> "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/pyglet/media/drivers/openal/__init__.py"
>, line 340, in driver_init_device = alc.alcOpenDevice(device_name)
>
> Audio on Linux is a mess.
> I launch an Python script that uses audio then it breaks, and when the
> Python script is closed, I still hear the audio skipping and repeating
> like,
> "kakakakakakaka" in infinite loop.
> And PulseAudio seems to be frozen.
> Then I kill PulseAudio and finally the audio noise stops.
>
> Oh, and I heard OpenAL downsamples stereo to mono on Linux due to a bug.
>
> Whole audio on Linux is just a big mess.

Please behave yourself.
Is there any way we can help you (which I doubt, but ...)?
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-20  6:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-17 13:24 Audio on Linux is a mess Fred .
2008-10-20  6:35 ` Marek Vasut [this message]
     [not found]   ` <f188924b0810200741v2982ecb4i2fea9589aa2958a3@mail.gmail.com>
2008-10-20 16:23     ` Marek Vasut
2008-10-20 16:47       ` Robert Vincent Krakora
2008-10-20 15:12 ` Colin Guthrie

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