[alsa-devel] Possible Bug Found with Xonar Stx Driver

[Clemens Ladisch]

nick wrote:
> After running the latest version of Linus's tree I am noticed way more buffering

What exactly do you mean with the word "buffering"?

> when playing music with my Xonar STX card when building kernels then
> under the Ubuntu kernel version of 3.19.16.

Sounds like a change in the disk access patterns.

The audio buffer size is chosen by the playing application (whatever it
is).

> I have tried bisecting it between the releases of 3.18 and 4.0
> and was unable to narrow it down to a buggy commit.

There was no relevant change in the sound driver.


Regards,
Clemens