[pulseaudio-discuss] Failure to create alsa source

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 27.02.10 02:43, Jenn and Alan Atherton (theathertons at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am having trouble getting the microphone on my webcam to work with pulse.
> What's odd is that it works just fine with ALSA, and pulse sees the device
> (and gives it a mono input profile), but at some point the input source
> isn't available.  I am using Ubuntu 9.10, but with pulseaudio 0.9.21 and
> ALSA 1.0.22 from an unstable repository.  I believe it's something in the
> pulseaudio side of things, since the device works fine with ALSA directly
> (e.g., through audacity).  I want to get it working with pulse, though, for
> Skype, which fairly recently moved to pulse exclusively.  I'm hoping this
> isn't a bug and merely a configuration issue, but I am not savvy with alsa
> or pulse, so I don't know what/where to tweak.  The critical lines in the
> pulse output are the last few that I've included in the long (post-message)
> excerpt from pulseaudio -vvv
> 
> W: alsa-util.c: Unable to set sw params: No such device
> E: alsa-source.c: Failed to set software parameters: No such device

http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=commitdiff;h=f1713475087027925358c3f9dd3db70723ed8d11

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566289

Lennart

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