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 18:23:27 +0200 Message-ID: <200810201823.27422.marek.vasut@gmail.com> References: <200810200835.25706.marek.vasut@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com (ik-out-1112.google.com [66.249.90.183]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 944A424592 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:19:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c30so1273649ika.0 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:18:52 -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: "Fred ." , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org You got what you paid for. Maybe if you change your attitude and supply some information, someone might consider looking in your issue, othervise it would be a problem since I forgot my crystal ball back at home. On Monday 20 of October 2008 16:41:45 Fred . wrote: > Yeah, fix the Linux audio so that if an application behaves wrong, or > does something stupid, then after I close the application, the system > should be silent. > It shouldn't continue make sound even after I quit the application. > And PulseAudio shouldn't crash because one application did something > even if it was stupid. > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Marek Vasut wrote: > > 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