[pulseaudio-discuss] Unable to create stream

[Jim Duda]

I have isolated that this problem was introduced in my upgrade from 
fedora 7 to fedora 8, with the introduction of the new version of the 
alsa pulse library.

This fc8 version causes *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to create stream:
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386             1.0.15-3.fc8.1

If I download alsa-plugins.1.0.15 source and compile on my own, this 
problem goes away and my application starts working again.

I cannot explain how the fedora 8 distribuition compile could introduce 
a difference.

Jim

Jim Duda wrote:
> After upgrading to 0.9.8 from 0.9.6, I have one application which 
> doesn't want to work with pulse.
> 
> I'm attempting to open a recording stream.  Using arecord works fine, so 
> I know that pulse is okay.
> 
> When my application attempts to open the recording stream, I get this 
> message.
> *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to create stream.
> Failed to set hwparams: Input/output error
> 
> The application is just doing a hw_params call.  This same application 
> worked fine with 0.9.6.  So, I need to change something, but I don't 
> know how to debug.
> 
> What does Unable to create stream with Input/Output error return message 
> specifically mean?
> 
>      err = snd_pcm_hw_params(handle, hwparams);
>      if (err < 0) {
>          fprintf(stderr, "Failed to set hwparams: %s\n", 
>   snd_strerror(err));
>          return -1;
>      }
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim