[alsa-devel] Which project to choose?

[Raymond Yau]

2010/7/15 Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com>

> On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 20:23 +0800, Raymond Yau wrote:
> > 2010/7/14 Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com>
> >
> > > On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 10:09 +0800, Raymond Yau wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >         > You need to provide a full pulseaudio log and a test case
> > > >         which can
> > > >         > reproduce your problem
> > > >         >
> > > >         > open a new terminal
> > > >         >
> > > >         > pulseaudio -k ; pulseaudio -vvvvv
> > > >
> > > >         Where should I post this Raymond?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > AFAIK , this mailing list has a limit of the message size
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > BTW ,
> > > >
> > > > did the program abort when you run alsa-time-test  and pipe the
> output
> > > > to "tail -n 500"
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.devel/60371/focus=60520
> > > >
> > > > Beware that the program generate a log of output
> > >
> > > Raymond, I've ran bzip2 on the output of pulseaudio -k ; pulseaudio
> > > -vvvvv and it went from 129k to 9k. Should I fwd to you or post on the
> > > list?
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> >
> >   appl_ptr is also behind the hw_ptr in 0.9.21-0.1mdv2010.0
> >
> > https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=56473#c15
> >
> > Apr 12 15:21:43 localhost pulseaudio[13701]: alsa-util.c: appl_ptr :
> >
> > 28465776
> > Apr 12 15:21:43 localhost pulseaudio[13701]: alsa-util.c:   hw_ptr
> :
> > 28555040
> >
> > and also appl_ptr is also behind the hw_ptr for snd_via82xx
> >
> > https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=56473#c0
> >
> >
> > Dec 14 20:26:29 localhost pulseaudio[4331]: alsa-util.c:   appl_ptr     :
> > 767919576
> > Dec 14 20:26:29 localhost pulseaudio[4331]: alsa-util.c:   hw_ptr       :
> > 767990616
>
> I posted both of those bug reports. Honestly, I just want it to work
> without all the error output to syslog and thrashing of my HD for
> minutes at a time. As I said, I've got the output of pulseaudio -vvvvv
> if anyone would like to look at it and tell me what I need to do to fix
> the problem.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
Just upload your current pulseaudio.log and output of alsa-info.sh to
mandriva 's bugzilla

Cannot obtain any conclusion based on the log which you have posted last
year ( xmms)

as Jaroslav Kysela said , need the real system time between I/O operations
and you'll see if it's issue in the ALSA driver or a task scheduling
problem.