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From: Julian Bradfield <jalsa-devel@jcbradfield.org>
To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: bug in playing 6-channel sound
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 11:46:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23837.55548.631053.741245@vis.stevens-bradfield.com> (raw)

Some five years ago, the following post

https://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2014-February/072265.html

reported a failure to play six-channel sound, that could be worked
around by setting the prealloc value for the device to various values
*other than* the default 64. 

I have just run into this playing a movie from my laptop (Thinkpad
Yoga X1, Intel HDA PCH sound card outputting through HDMI) running
Xubuntu 18.04, up to date as at the time of posting.

I see exactly the same problem as in that post, and the same
workaround works for me - I tried prealloc values 63,65,32,128, and
any of them is ok.

I'm a bit baffled that such a problem has survived for several years.

If any developer would like me to provide debugging information,
please get in touch - I have some time available at present, but not
enough to learn ALSA and debug it myself!

I will remain subscribed to the list for a few weeks to read any
followups.

             reply	other threads:[~2019-07-04 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-04 10:46 Julian Bradfield [this message]
2019-07-05 10:21 ` bug in playing 6-channel sound Takashi Iwai

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