On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:18:24AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
Thanks. Switching to the polling mode is really harmless. So, basically you can ignore these messages. I can change it only as a debug message.
OTOH, if the switching to single_cmd mode happens, this is a serious problem. But, as far as I see in alsa-info.sh output, it didn't happen.
Ok, then the bug is in handling of polling mode in this particular chip. After such switch to polling mode, applications will get stuck on releasing the soundcard. Another symptom I forgot to describe is that the last ~100ms of output will keep repeating when I pause/stop playback, one has to mute the volume to get rid of this. Again, this starts happenning only sometimes after the switch to polling mode, but then keeps happenning fairly consistently.