My first thought? Alsa is thinking your keyboard is the default sound card. If you do aplay file.wav, does it play the file? On 1/4/2012 11:38 PM, pj at pjb.com.au wrote: > Greetings, > > I've been meeting this bug for a while, but I've just worked > out what triggers it. When booting, if my USB MIDI-keyboard is > switched on while booting, then when speech _ought_ to start, > then for every character which ought to be spoken on the console, > I get about 100 lines of error messages, sort of like this: > > Expression 'PaAlsaStreamComponent_DetermineFramesPerBuffer( &self-> > playback, outputParameters, framesPerUserBuffer, sampleRate, hwParamsPlayback, & > accurate )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1828 > Expression ' > PaAlsaStream_DetermineFramesPerBuffer( self, realSr, inParams, outParams, frames > PerUserBuffer, hwParamsCapture, hwParamsPlayback, hostBufferSizeMode )' failed i > n 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1870 > Expression 'PaAlsaStream_Configu > re( stream, inputParameters, outputParameters, sampleRate, framesPerBuffer, &inp > utLatency, &outputLatency, &hostBufferSizeMode )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa > _linux_alsa.c', line: 1988 > wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9999 (Unanticip > ated host error) > Expression 'snd_pcm_hw_params_set_period_size_near( self->pcm, h > wParams, &framesPerHostBuffer, &dir )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa > .c', line: 1616 > Expression 'PaAlsaStreamComponent_DetermineFramesPerBuffer( &self > ->playback, outputParameters, framesPerUserBuffer, sampleRate, hwParamsPlayback, > &accurate )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1828 > Expression > 'PaAlsaStream_DetermineFramesPerBuffer( self, realSr, inParams, outParams, fram > esPerUserBuffer, hwParamsCapture, hwParamsPlayback, hostBufferSizeMode )' failed > in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1870 > Expression 'PaAlsaStream_Confi > gure( stream, inputParameters, outputParameters, sampleRate, framesPerBuffer, &i > nputLatency, &outputLatency, &hostBufferSizeMode )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/ > pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1988 > > and so on and on and on. Fortunately I can Alt-F2 and log in as > root in order to reboot (no sound of course). If I switch the USB > midi-keyboard off before it reboots, then it reboots correctly. > I'm no kernel person and hopefully you all have more idea what > this means than I do... > > Regards, Peter Billam > > http://www.pjb.com.au pj at pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 > "Was der Meister nicht kann, verm?cht es der Knabe, h?tt er > ihm immer gehorcht?" Siegfried to Mime, from Act 1 Scene 2 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
