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Audio interface does not support host endian 32 bit float samples

Bug #148899 reported by Erik de Castro Lopo on 2007-10-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #132037: [Gutsy] PCM 'lfloat' plugin broken, please sync alsa-lib from debian. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	sweep (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Sweep does not play audio.

/usr/bin/sweep <any wav or aiff file>

and then pressing play, results in:

sweep: alsa_setup: audio interface does not support host endian 32 bit float samples (Invalid argument)
Floating point exception (core dumped)

It may well be an ALSA bug.

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Erik de Castro Lopo (erikd) wrote on 2007-10-04:

I think this is the same bug as:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148510

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Erik de Castro Lopo (erikd) wrote on 2007-10-15:

Still broken after installing libasound2_1.0.14-1ubuntu8_i386.deb.

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Ludovico Cavedon (cavedon) wrote on 2007-11-24:

It should work with libasound2 from hardy (you can install it in gutsy without any problem).
A backport has been requested with bug #164890.
Please help testing the backported package in order to speed up backporting!
Thanks!

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Erik de Castro Lopo (erikd) wrote on 2007-11-24: Re: [Bug 148899] Re: Audio interface does not support host endian 32 bit float samples

Ludovico Cavedon wrote:

> It should work with libasound2 from hardy (you can install it in gutsy without any problem).
> A backport has been requested with bug #164890.
> Please help testing the backported package in order to speed up backporting!

I installed libasound2_1.0.15-1ubuntu1_i386.deb and it did indeed fix
sound playing for both programs that had stopped working when I
upgraded to gutsy.