[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#429326: Bug#429326: Bad audio with 1.0.14a-1 and CA0106

[matt.nottingham at zen.co.uk]

Elimar Riesebieter writes:
 > On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 the mental interface of
 > matt.nottingham at zen.co.uk told:
 > 
 > > 
 > > Package: libasound2
 > > Version: 1.0.14a-1
 > > 
 > > Since upgrading to 1.0.14 I've had poor audio from my "CL Audigy SE
 > > 7.1" on my AMD64 running unstable. 
 > > 
 > > By poor audio I mean:
 > > 
 > > 1) when I play OGG files from XMMS (through the ALSA plugin) I get
 > > momentary pauses - which seem to be linked to any CPU activity.
 > > 
 > > 2) XMMS does not make it through a whole OGG file without stopping -
 > > for no apparent reason! No error messages are written to any file or
 > > the xterm I started xmms from.
 > > 
 > > 3) I also get the momentry pauses when using kaffeine.
 > 
 > Could you please test
 > 
 > $ ogg123 file.ogg
 > 
 > ?
 > 
 > Need some more AMD64 testers, as I am not aware of that plattform.
 > I've tested on ppc and i386. All went fine, though.
 > 
 > 
 > Elimar
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > -- 
 >   On the keyboard of life you have always
 >   to keep a finger at the escape key;-)

Hi,

I tried with 1.0.13-2 and it worked fine - for all 4 minutes of recording. 

With 1.0.14a-1 I get a momentary pause every 5-10 seconds (without me
doing much else on the computer). There were also 5 big
pauses/skips. At each of these it prints out "ALSA: underrun, at least
0ms" (is this the error that xmms sees which causes it just to
stop?....)

The track is at 128kbps, 2 channel.

(My machine also has 4Gbytes of RAM in it which has caused some
problems before (mainly USB drivers and DMA transfers), but I don't
think that it should be causing a problem in this case.)

(Reverting back to 1.0.13 as .14 is unlistenable!)

Thanks,

Matt Nottingham