This heavily looks like /usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/module-alsa-sink.so (and probably other pulseaudio modules, but I don't know about the correct access policy of alsa devices and the scope of the pulseaudio modules) try to obtain exclusive access to an alsa device via "hw:" instead of "plughw:" and consequently either lock out other apps going directly through alsa from accessing the sound device or being unable to arbitrate the device itself in case it is already in use by another app when pulseaudio starts up.
AFAIRC, this is true for sound cards/drivers that don't have the intrinsic capability to consume several audio streams at once and must use software mixing (hence in theory, "plughw:" should work, since alsa provides the software mixing then). Also, #521675 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521675 and #521282 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521282 might be related to that issue. Regards, Niels Böhm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
