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sulu	2011-09-05 , 20:22
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Thanks to qole's statements here [1] I downgraded pulseaudio to Lenny and sound now works in my otherwise pure Squeeze Easy Debian.
To be precise I downgraded the following packages:

Code:

pulseaudio libpulse0 libpulse-mainloop-glib0 paman pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-x11

While I'm sure the first 3 are necessary to make sound work again I'm not sure about the last 3. (Maybe) I will investigate that later.
Unfortunately I now have some broken packages. To be precise, these ones:

Code:

gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio libasound2-plugins libpulse-browse0 mplayer pavucontrol pulseaudio-utils xmms2-plugin-pulse

But I do have sound. The broken mplayer plays ogg and mp3 just fine. However I have problems with mpc. It's played but it doesn't sound right. I haven't fully understood mplayer's dependencies regarding musepack.
Of course keeping those broken packages is not a solution. The dirty solution would be to create some dummy packages that solve these dependencies but the clean and therefore best solution would be to have a more recent and properly working pulseaudio in Maemo so that Easy Debian could use the Squeeze packages. Does anybody know if there's any reasonable chance to update Maemo's pulseaudio?
Nevertheless I only consider this to be a proof of concept since Easy Debian couldn't bring any multimedia features for me that Maemo doesn't.

side node 1:
I decided not to bother with the ctrl press problem anymore. I have settled with the circumstance to press ctrl after returning to Easy Debian when coming from another window.

side note 2:
I also decided to have a look at the gconf2 problems although they don't seem to affect me. Therefore I'd appreciate it if somebody could tell me a more lightweight program than LO that causes trouble but if there is none I'll also install that heavy monster again.
In any case I'd like to have a clear test scenario: What should I do in LO and what should I look for? I haven't really used L/OO for 3 or 4 years so I'm not up to date.
btw: Abiword and Gnumeric seem to work fine under Squeeze. I don't use them enough on the N900 to be able to say that for sure but I didn't notice any obvious problems.

[1] http://forums.internettablettalk.com...ad.php?t=36936

Edit:
I just compared the source code of the pulseaudio versions from Lenny and Squeeze. Bah! What a mess! I tried to find where this protocol error message comes from. It's in pulsecore/protocoal_native.c.
But unfortunately the function itself doesn't provide much information:

Code:

static void protocol_error(connection *c) {
    pa_log("protocol error, kicking client");
    connection_unlink(c);
}

(Lenny version; the Squeeze version looks a bit different due to changed variable names but the functionality stays the same)
And it could be called like a hundred times within that file. It's a shame that the error message isn't more verbose about where the error came from exactly. There seem to have been numerous protocol changes between version 0.9.11 and 15 but none after 15 - which would be interesting due to the observation that something must have broken between 0.9.15 and 19 (not 21; found that in an e-mail archive involving pulseaudio on the N900 and an Ubuntu package).

client-ext.c isn't even in pulseaudio. I don't know yet where it is but since downgrading pulseaudio is sufficient to get sound I guess we don't have to consider client-ext.c here.

Last edited by sulu; 2011-09-06 at 10:24.

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