[alsa-devel] device underruns

[Daniel Mack]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:12:14PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > The ALSA PCM core just relies upon two things from the lowlevel driver:
> > > 
> > > 1. The lowlevel driver calls snd_pcm_period_elapsed() at each time
> > >    when the set-up period size has been processed by the hardware.
> > > 2. The pointer callback reports the sane position as the current
> > >    position; not below the previous position and not above the next
> > >    period boundary.
> > > 
> > > Especially pulseaudio is very sensitive about these two things,
> > > because it always asks the driver the current position.  Thus, if your
> > > driver doesn't fulfill the above conditions, it won't work properly.
> > 
> > Oh well. Stupid me. I think I fixed it, and wonder why it didn't break
> > more things. Could you apply the patch below?
> 
> If you provide a proper changelog and your sign-off ;)

Oops :)