There is some issue with the pulse plug-in for ALSA that causes speaker-test (a test tool, part of ALSA) to fail: http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/23 https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2601 We should probably have a look at it in case it affects other applications.
*SIGH* ALSA's code is _really_ hard to follow. After an entire afternoon of unraveling ALSA's parameter refinement system, I finally found the problem. The code is too messy for me to see an obvious fix, but I've reported what the problem is upstream. Hopefully they can do a fix.
Works fine with current versions of ALSA.
>"Using 16 octaves of pink noise" How boring. But works.