The pulseaudio problem on Alpha is worse than just causing a crash in iceweasel---pulseaudio cannot auto-detect audio cards via the udev mechanism.
I have a number of audio cards (HDA-intel on a newer Radeon graphics card, and M-Audio Revolution 5.1) in my Alpha XP1000 but these are not detected despite the presence of module-udev-detect in the pulseaudio system config. Trying to play sound files (aplay -D pulse <some_sound_file>) plays no sound and never returns. Instrumenting and recompiling pulseaudio to print out the errno of the failed call to pthread_mutex_unlock reveals an EPERM return. Anyway, I think this is a fault in the kernel, not with pulseaudio. If I boot with a 2.6.38.x variant kernel pulseaudio works, the audio cards are detected, I have the pleasant sounds of Pink Floyd playing again, and iceweasel works without crashing. Run with a newer kernel and pulseaudio fails to work. Other hints that this is a kernel problem introduced somewhere between 2.6.38 and 2.6.39 is that the eglibc test suite passes on 2.6.38 and older kernels, but fails on 2.6.39 and newer kernels with failures in mutex related tests. Maybe this bug should be reassigned to the linux kernel? Cheers Michael. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
