Recommendation from Lennart Poettering: In ALSA_OpenAudio(): instead of setting period_size+n_periods OR buffer_size I'd recommend copying the hwparams stuff before you do this, then first try period_size+n_periods, and then apply it with snd_pcm_hw_params() and check if that works. If it didn't you should take the copy of hwparams and try setting buffer_size and apply that via snd_pcm_hw_params() and check if that worked. And if that failed too, then take the copy and don't apply neither period nor buffer settings and see if that works.

# sdl pkg-config source file

prefix=@prefix@
exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@
libdir=@libdir@
includedir=@includedir@

Name: sdl
Description: Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer.
Version: @SDL_VERSION@
Requires:
Conflicts:
Libs: -L${libdir} @SDL_RLD_FLAGS@ @SDL_LIBS@
Libs.private: @SDL_STATIC_LIBS@
Cflags: -I${includedir}/SDL @SDL_CFLAGS@