Comment 14 for bug 188567

"speaker-test" does not work, btw, with or without pasuspender:

~% pasuspender -- speaker-test

speaker-test 1.0.15

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 256 to 2097152
Period size range from 128 to 524288
Using max buffer size 2097152
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 0
was set buffer_size = 2097152
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to create stream.
Unable to set hw params for playback: Input/output error
Setting of hwparams failed: Input/output error
speaker-test: pcm_pulse.c:115: pulse_stop: Assertion `pcm->stream' failed.
WARNING: Child process terminated by signal 6

~% speaker-test

speaker-test 1.0.15

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 256 to 2097152
Period size range from 128 to 524288
Using max buffer size 2097152
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 0
was set buffer_size = 2097152
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to create stream.
Unable to set hw params for playback: Input/output error
Setting of hwparams failed: Input/output error
speaker-test: pcm_pulse.c:115: pulse_stop: Assertion `pcm->stream' failed.
zsh: abort (core dumped) speaker-test

...but I can play .wav-files with paplay, just fine.