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Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

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speaker-test -c 6 -t wav fails

This is weird. I've recently rebuilt my system aith a new CPU, MB and RAM. I successfully migrated my install to the new build.

I use pulseaudio, but today I've been rearranging other systems (a cluster of four RPi) and in the process, disconnected my audio cables from the sub/amp. After getting everything reconnected and working, my final test was to make sure the speakers were properly configured. I usually do so with:

speaker-test -c 6 -t wav

Weirdest thing. With -t wav it fails with Bad Address messages. White noise test works just fine.

I connect to the Pulse server on my desktop from my laptop and the PIs, and running speaker-test with -t wav works from them (same pulse server, same hardware).

What would cause -t wav to suddenly stop working on the host machine?

EDIT: It's actually no error at all (the Bad Address only comes when I quit). It simply flies through the channels without producing a peep.

Last edited by Roken (2018-09-08 11:47:02)

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