2010/9/20 Gavin Stark <gavin@xxxxxxxxxx> > I am using ALSA in a gstreamer project. When playing many videos (with > audio) in the same application and the same gstreamer instance every once in > a while (maybe once every 500 times) I will receive the following errors (in > a call chain that passes through snd_pcm_open) > > confmisc.c:1286:snd_func_refer: alsalib error: Unable to find definition > 'defaults.pcm.dmix.device' > alsa conf.c:4154:_snd_config_evaluate: alsalib error: function > snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory > alsa conf.c:4633:snd_config_expand: alsalib error: Evaluate error: No such > file or directory > alsa pcm.c:2211:snd_pcm_open_noupdate: alsalib error: Unknown PCM default > > The next playback will be fine. Looking through the ALSA code it seems > that the configuration data should be cached and re-used unless the number > of config files changes, or the files themselves change (name, device, > inode. mtime) So I am wonder why on one instance of snd_pcm_open I'd end up > with this error but not on most previous or subsequent calls. > > All the ALSA configuration files are the defaults, I have no ~/.asoundrc, > and I'm running version 1.0.23 > > Thank you, > Gavin Stark > > which distribution are you using ? if your "default" PCM want to find "defaults.pcm.dmix.device" which is defined in alsa-lib/src/alsa/alsa.conf defaults.pcm.dmix.device defaults.pcm.device AFAIK, Mandriva 2010/2010 spring can be reconfigued to use dmix/dsnoop instead of pulseaudio But I have no idea how Mandriva 's alsa-lib support "default:0" and "default:1" _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
