cwirc does not work with pulseaudio natively

[anon]

Binary package hint: cwirc

cwirc expects a dsp device. Using the default /dev/dsp gives "Error: cannot open sound device /dev/dsp" (pulseaudio is using it).

A workaround is to launch xchat with:
padsp xchat

As pulseaudio is installed by default this workaround should be documented in the package.

The package could offer to change the shortcut on install to a simple wrapper script that uses padsp if it finds pulseaudio.
maybe with
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --check

[Leo Iannacone (l3on)]

Thank you for the bug report however this report lacks information we need to investigate it further. For this reason, we are now going to close the bug - please feel free to reopen when you have more information at hand.

Please provide following output:

$ lsb_release -cd
$ apt-cache policy cwirc

Thanks in advance.

[Pierce March (stepnjump)]

Hi Leo,

I'm surprised the other person didn't reply to your questions above.

I also have the problem with this issue.
I'm on Natty for 32 bits.

cwirc:
  Installed: 2.0.0-4
  Candidate: 2.0.0-4
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.0-4 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I hope this can help to troubleshoot the problem.

Thanks in advance,

Stepnjump

[Leo Iannacone (l3on)]

Hi Pierce,

can you try this workaround?

In a terminal, launch xchat typing:
$ padsp xchat

then check if cwirc works.

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[Mark Dammer (mark-dammer)]

As running Xirc with padsp won't solve the problem I created this simple wrapper script. Simply put it into /usr/local/bin and make it executable. Because /usr/local/bin is parsed before /usr/bin, Xirc's call of cwirc_frontend will call the wrapper with the same name. The wrapper then calls the original cwirc_frontend program with all argumens and padsp.

The cwirc_frontend wrapper just contains these two lines:

#!/bin/bash
padsp /usr/bin/cwirc_frontend $@