The aplay call was introduced in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jockey- hackers/jockey/trunk/revision/519 for bug 295158. Apparently some sl- modem types don't appear in /proc/asound/cards. It's indeed a strange hack, but so is sl-modem in the first place :) Beyond that bug report I'm afraid I have no idea about this -- I never had such a modem, and thus I don't have the opportunity to test any change.
I don't know why aplay invokes pulseaudio (that seems wrong, as pulseaudio usually uses ALSA as a backend), but if passing on the environment (for DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS etc.) helps, I'm fine with doing that. The main reason for passing an empty environment was to ensure that this does not use any localization. ** Changed in: alsa-plugins (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1296425 Title: pulseaudio is started twice - effectively making device management impossible. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-plugins/+bug/1296425/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs