Comment 93 for bug 192888

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cameo73 (jeroen-brattinga) wrote : Re: firefox crashes on flash contents

I tried the latest patch, but had one problem: the dsnoop device wasn't recognized. This caused a fatal error (and PulseAudio terminated).
The relevant output was:
--- START OUTPUT ---
I: module-alsa-sink.c: Starting playback.
I: module.c: Loaded "module-alsa-sink" (index: #0; argument: "device=dmix").
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:565:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave
E: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device dsnoop: No such file or directory
E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-source" (argument: "device=dsnoop"): initialization failed.
E: main.c: Module load failed.
E: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.
I: module.c: Unloading "module-alsa-sink" (index: #0).
I: sink.c: Freeing sink 0 "alsa_output.dmix"
I: source.c: Freeing source 0 "alsa_output.dmix.monitor"
I: module.c: Unloaded "module-alsa-sink" (index: #0).
I: main.c: Daemon terminated.
--- END OUTPUT ---

I got it working by commenting out the "load-module module-alsa-source device=dsnoop" line. I have no idea if my audio setup (Bose Companion 5 USB Audio) is capable of audio input (was never interested in it). With the commented line, PulseAudio loads succesfully and will play FF3, Exaile and Totem simultaneously.