From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marek Vasut Subject: Re: Audio on Linux is a mess Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:35:25 +0200 Message-ID: <200810200835.25706.marek.vasut@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 980761037F6 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:31:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 30so499422ugs.24 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:30:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Cc: "Fred ." List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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 ...)? > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > Alsa-devel@alsa-project.org > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel