[PlanetCCRMA] alsaplayer failure

[Mark Knecht]

Fernando,
   I tried your command but got the same failure. Still an assertion
failure in pcm.c.

Mark


On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 12:54, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> >    The current version of alsplayer seems to be failing when I try and
> > start it without jack. It works fine with jack.
> > 
> >    Is anyone else seeing this?
> > 
> >    I've also noticed that pd doesn't work on it's own, but does work
> > with jack.
> > 
> > [mark@Godzilla mark]$ alsaplayer
> > alsaplayer: pcm.c:6293: snd_pcm_unlink_ptr: Assertion `0' failed.
> > AlsaPlayer interrupted by signal 6
> > [mark@Godzilla mark]$
> 
> This is what I get here:
> 
> > alsaplayer -d plughw:0 -F 44100 -f 512 -g 3 -r
> error on set_periods (13)
> Unavailable hw params:
> ACCESS:  RW_INTERLEAVED
> FORMAT:  S16_LE
> SUBFORMAT:  STD
> SAMPLE_BITS: 16
> FRAME_BITS: 32
> CHANNELS: 2
> RATE: 44100
> PERIOD_TIME: (11609 11610)
> PERIOD_SIZE: 512
> PERIOD_BYTES: 2048
> PERIODS: [1 13)
> BUFFER_TIME: (11609 148595)
> BUFFER_SIZE: [512 6553]
> BUFFER_BYTES: [2048 26212]
> TICK_TIME: 10000
> ***NOTE***: please consider scheduling real-time!
> xrun of at least 4.961 msecs. resetting stream
> xrun of at least 20.493 msecs. resetting stream
> xrun of at least 0.481 msecs. resetting stream
> xrun of at least 2.920 msecs. resetting stream
> 
> I have to set the alsa parameters by hand otherwise the defaults that
> alsaplayer selects fail [and even then alsaplayer is trying first with
> some weird value for periods!]. Obviously I get xruns because it is not
> suid root and does not run with realtime priority. I have to use plughw
> because alsaplayer does not know how to deal correctly (apparently) with
> multichannel cards, I'm running this on a Midiman Delta 66 (ice1712
> chipset). 
> 
> -- Fernando
> 
> 
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