[alsa-devel] Which project to choose?

[Chris]

On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 08:53 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Raymond Yau at 19/07/10 07:35 did gyre and gimble:
> > 2010/7/19 Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com>
> > 
> >> On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 09:44 +0800, Raymond Yau wrote:
> >>
> >>>>
> >>> 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
> >>
> >>
> > Do you mean that you cannot reproduce the xmms hang bug on your ens1371 or
> > via8237 ?
> > 
> > xmms always hang/freeze at 4 second as xmms display the total length of
> > startup3.wav is 5 seconds
> >
> > you have to ask mandriva 's maintainer why enable buffering is the default
> > option since xmms did not hang when I disable buffering in libao plugin
> > 
> > For fefora 10 and 13 , they only provide liboss, libALSA and libpulse plugin
> > for xmms
> > I have no idea about the chunk size in libao plugin
> 
> 
> With a clean user account, I could not reproduce either problem with the
> default settings.
> 
> FWIW, running PA under virtualbox is quite different to running it under
> a real system. For example PA will enable the non-timer based mode
> automatically when under a virtual machine.
> 
> Col
> 
> 

Colin, I've just re-enabled PA using the Ensoniq/Creative AudioPCI
ES1371+ driver, this is according to the Mandriva Control Center sound
setup. However, it also shows the VIA VT82xx audio driver when initially
loaded, when I click on 'ok' it shows the Ensoniq driver. I've again run
pulseaudio -k ; pulseaudio -vvvvv while playing a cd with mplayer. I've
uploaded the output here:

http://ez-files.net/953712

Does this have any meaning?

Thanks for any assistance.

Chris

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Chris
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