Comment 16 for bug 31699

> Is this distinct from bug #35540? It sounds quite similar.

No, the fix for that bug has been released and works fine. This bug is still present. I mentioned above that I wondered if they were related but Daniel pointed out that they are not.

I guess this is a bug that you will only see if you have more than one sound card. In my case the second sound card is a USB phone which I want to be able to use with Ekiga while leaving the PCI sound card as the default for all other applications. The bug doesn't exist on other distros that I've tried.

Actually now that I mention it you should be able to see the bug if you select your sound card by name rather than "Default" in Ekiga's Preferences dialogs. Run the First Time Configuration Assistant "Edit->Configuration Druid" and skip through to the page where you select which audio devices to use. Select your sound card (not "Default", even though they are presumably the same thing) and then hit "Test Settings." You should be given an error dialog saying that something might be wrong with permissions or something. On the console you'll get the same output as in the original report.

I've noticed that sometimes it works (or looks like it's going to work) but if you go back and try it again it will fail.

Please let me know what I can do to help diagnose this problem, this bug is very important to me. It sounds like something is just missing from the alsa config files or something.