Hi all,

I'm trying to track down a problem with my media player (xmms2) where it has stopped advancing to the next track after reaching the end of the song.

I have the same distro with the same package versions on two slightly different computers, and it works fine on one but not the other. One difference between the two is that although both have Intel HD Audio, each is provided by a different type of chip.

I was asked to try pulseaudio to see if the problem persisted there and it did, however upon loading the pulseaudio server it told me this:

E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_delay() returned strange values: delay 0 is less than avail 4. E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_hda_intel'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_dump(): E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: Direct Snoop PCM E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: Its setup is: E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: stream : CAPTURE E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: format : S32_LE E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: subformat : STD E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: channels : 2 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: rate : 48000 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: exact rate : 48000 (48000/1) E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: msbits : 32 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 16384 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: period_size : 1024 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: period_time : 21333 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: period_step : 1 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: avail_min : 15943 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: period_event : 0 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 4611686018427387904 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: boundary : 4611686018427387904 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: Hardware PCM card 1 'HDA Intel PCH' device 0 subdevice 0 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: Its setup is: E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: stream : CAPTURE E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: format : S32_LE E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: subformat : STD E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: channels : 2 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: rate : 48000 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: exact rate : 48000 (48000/1) E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: msbits : 32 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 16384 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: period_size : 1024 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: period_time : 21333 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: period_step : 1 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: avail_min : 1024 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: period_event : 0 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: start_threshold : 1 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 4611686018427387904 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: boundary : 4611686018427387904 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: appl_ptr : 0 E: [alsa-source-ALC892 Analog] alsa-util.c: hw_ptr : 8236

So I am reporting this in the hope that someone understands what the problem is and knows how to fix it.

The wiki said to include the output of aadebug with a bug report, so here's that:

ALSA Audio Debug v0.2.0 - Sat Jun 27 17:26:44 AEST 2015 http://alsa.opensrc.org/aadebug http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt

Kernel ---------------------------------------------------- Linux korath.teln.shikadi.net 4.0.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 23 14:25:08 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version k4.0.6-1-ARCH.

Loaded Modules -------------------------------------------- snd_hrtimer 16384 1 snd_seq 61440 1 snd_seq_device 16384 1 snd_seq snd_hda_codec_hdmi 53248 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek 65536 1 snd_hda_codec_generic 65536 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel 28672 9 snd_hda_controller 28672 1 snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec 114688 5 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller snd_hwdep 16384 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm 90112 6 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller snd_timer 28672 5 snd_hrtimer,snd_pcm,snd_seq snd 69632 25 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device

Proc Asound ----------------------------------------------- 0 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDMI HDA Intel HDMI at 0xf7c34000 irq 30 1 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7c30000 irq 28 1: : sequencer 2: [ 1] : control 3: [ 1- 0]: digital audio playback 4: [ 1- 0]: digital audio capture 5: [ 1- 1]: digital audio playback 6: [ 1- 2]: digital audio capture 7: [ 1- 0]: hardware dependent 8: [ 0] : control 9: [ 0- 3]: digital audio playback 10: [ 0- 7]: digital audio playback 11: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent 33: : timer 01-00: HDA Codec 0 00-00: HDA Codec 0 00-03: HDMI 0 : HDMI 0 : playback 1 00-07: HDMI 1 : HDMI 1 : playback 1 01-00: ALC892 Analog : ALC892 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1 01-01: ALC892 Digital : ALC892 Digital : playback 1 01-02: ALC892 Alt Analog : ALC892 Alt Analog : capture 1 Client info cur clients : 2 peak clients : 2 max clients : 192

Client 0 : "System" [Kernel] Port 0 : "Timer" (Rwe-) Port 1 : "Announce" (R-e-) Client 14 : "Midi Through" [Kernel] Port 0 : "Midi Through Port-0" (RWe-) Client 128 : "TiMidity" [User] Port 0 : "TiMidity port 0" (-We-) Port 1 : "TiMidity port 1" (-We-) Port 2 : "TiMidity port 2" (-We-) Port 3 : "TiMidity port 3" (-We-) Output pool : Pool size : 500 Cells in use : 0 Peak cells in use : 0 Alloc success : 0 Alloc failures : 0 Input pool : Pool size : 1000 Cells in use : 0 Peak cells in use : 0 Alloc success : 0 Alloc failures : 0

Dev Snd --------------------------------------------------- total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jun 27 13:31 by-path crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 8 Jun 27 13:31 controlC0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Jun 27 13:31 controlC1 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 11 Jun 27 13:31 hwC0D0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Jun 27 13:31 hwC1D0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 9 Jun 27 17:12 pcmC0D3p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Jun 27 17:12 pcmC0D7p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Jun 27 17:12 pcmC1D0c crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Jun 27 17:13 pcmC1D0p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Jun 27 13:31 pcmC1D1p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Jun 27 13:31 pcmC1D2c crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 1 Jun 27 13:31 seq crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Jun 27 13:31 timer

CPU ------------------------------------------------------- model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz cpu MHz : 3097.500 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz cpu MHz : 3000.000 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz cpu MHz : 3295.664 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz cpu MHz : 3120.703 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz cpu MHz : 3001.406 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz cpu MHz : 3000.351 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz cpu MHz : 3645.585 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz cpu MHz : 3000.468

RAM ------------------------------------------------------- MemTotal: 16362900 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB

Hardware -------------------------------------------------- 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06) 00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)

Interupts ------------------------------------------------- CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6 CPU7 0: 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 IO-APIC-edge i8042 7: 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge 8: 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 16: 20 0 0 0 4 1 3 1 IO-APIC 16-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1 23: 23 0 5 0 2 1 1 1 IO-APIC 23-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2 24: 236257 13391 10344 8635 7919 6578 6237 5429 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd 25: 27200 5286 3884 3536 10293 3395 2433 1864 PCI-MSI-edge 0000:00:1f.2 26: 3 6 0 0 0 2 0 2 PCI-MSI-edge mei_me 27: 231790 38059 33089 33480 38333 18853 15356 13578 PCI-MSI-edge eth0 28: 549701 20320 18918 16545 17439 14054 12933 11245 PCI-MSI-edge snd_hda_intel 29: 1936 799 524 368 520 541 356 265 PCI-MSI-edge i915 30: 25 272 13 2 477 200 8 2 PCI-MSI-edge snd_hda_intel NMI: 15 14 14 14 9 7 9 10 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 1051971 756503 703396 726403 198333 221752 198703 213191 Local timer interrupts SPU: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts PMI: 15 14 14 14 9 7 9 10 Performance monitoring interrupts IWI: 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 IRQ work interrupts RTR: 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 APIC ICR read retries RES: 13573 10138 7672 8132 3954 3624 3500 2935 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 32694 13897 13827 14113 968 1025 1057 1107 Function call interrupts TLB: 7503 7559 9116 13064 9259 6773 5330 4805 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Thermal event interrupts THR: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts MCE: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Machine check exceptions MCP: 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 Machine check polls HYP: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Hypervisor callback interrupts ERR: 9 MIS: 0

Please let me know if I can provide any other info.

Many thanks, Adam.