[alsa-devel] Which project to choose?

Chris cpollock at embarqmail.com
Mon Jul 19 04:56:04 CEST 2010


On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 09:44 +0800, Raymond Yau wrote:
> 2010/7/15 Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie>
> 
> > 'Twas brillig, and Chris at 15/07/10 02:38 did gyre and gimble:
> > > On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 08:08 +0800, Raymond Yau wrote:
> > >
> > >>> 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.
> > >
> > > Here is the bug report with the outputs uploaded.
> > >
> > > https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=60169
> >
> > Well seeing as my process when getting such a bug is to report it here
> > on behalf of the user, I suspect that this has reached a stalemate....
> >
> >
> >
> Refer to https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=56473#c10
> 
> I have installed mandriva 2010 on virtual box
> 
> when using xmms and libao output plugin to play system sound startup3.wav
> 
> xmms hang at the end of the playback only when enable buffering in libao
> output plugin.(configure output plugin in xmms, unfortunately default is
> enable buffering buffer size 3000 chunk size 1000)  ,
> 
> xmms does not hang when you disable the buffer or using liboss/libALSA
> output plugin
> 
> The last message in the pulseaudio server is
> D: protocol-native.c  'underrun on libao[xmms] playback stream' , 0 bytes in
> queue.
> 
> The sound card seem running since hw_ptr and appl_ptr are increasing when
> cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/status
> 
> After a while , the following message appear
> 
> E:alsa-sink.c : ALSA woke us up to write new data , but there was actually
> nothing to write!
The above is exactly what I see periodically Raymond, so, what, if any,
is the fix?

Chris

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Chris
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