[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#522598: I can confirm this behavior on Enxoniq 1371

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:47:14PM -0400, Dominique Brazziel wrote:
> and Intel ICH4/AC07 controller in Dell Inspiron laptop.  Debian is not
> the only distro with this problem, goodle the 'module-alsa-sink.c'
> message and get a whole lot of hits from Fedora, Ubuntu, every distro.
> Fills up logs and sound drops out every 15 seconds for seconds at a
> time.

Which version of pulseaudio, alsa and the kernel is this ?

> With or without the 'tsched=0' parm, the pulseaudio craps all over
> itself, renders the sound system UNUSABLE, then lies about it and says
> it's ALSA's fault.

> I've been using ALSA as the mixer for 5 years on many different machines
> and NEVER had any problem like this.  

That's because pulseaudio does time based scheduling instead of interrupt based
scheduling, which basically no other application does and hence it triggers
loads and loads previously undiscovered bugs in alsa.

  Sjoerd
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