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From: Eprom <eprom@××××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] intermittent ALSA error
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:55:18
Message-Id: 4CDD0EB1.4080006@sctech.at
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] intermittent ALSA error by Coert Waagmeester
1 Am 12.11.2010 09:09, schrieb Coert Waagmeester:
2 > Hello all,
3 >
4 > Managed to set my self up with an awesome KDE desktop.
5 >
6 > there is only one problem that only happens occasionally.
7 >
8 >
9 > When I queue a few music videos in vlc and it goes from one to next,
10 > only sometimes it comes with an ALSA error:
11 >
12 > ALSA version problem:
13 > VLC failed to re-initialize your sound output device.
14 > Please update alsa-lib to version 1.0.22 or higher to fix this issue.
15 > Potential ALSA version problem:
16 > VLC failed to initialize your sound output device (if any).
17 > Please update alsa-lib to version 1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or higher to try to
18 > fix this issue.
19 >
20 > Stop the music video, start it again, and the the sound works.
21 >
22 > Any pointers as to what I could possibly have done wrong?
23 >
24 > Regards,
25 > Coert
26 >
27
28 Hi,
29
30 I get the same error sometimes when I try to run multiple instances of
31 vlc. Closing and restarting vlc sometimes helps. Seems like a problem
32 with alsa, but I'm not sure.
33
34 greets
35 Eprom