[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#469064: intel8x0: sounds cut off/squashed

[Ian Zimmerman]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.16-1
Severity: normal

After this alsa upgrade, there's a new unpleasant effect with my laptop
sound (Intel 82801DB-ICH4 on IBM Thinkpad R40) which used to just work. 
Namely, there seems to be a finite ramp-up time shaved off from the
beginning of sound files.  This happens both with "aplay" and "play"
(from the sox package), but the effect is more pronounced (so to speak)
with aplay.  For instance, executing

aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Rear_Left.wav

sounds more like "Ir Left".

I tried explicitly setting the clock rate as described in the kernel
documentation for this driver (i.e. snd_intel8x0), but it makes no
difference.

-- Package-specific info:
--- Begin additional package status ---
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                    Version                 Description
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ii  libasound2              1.0.16-1                ALSA library
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--- Begin /proc/asound/version ---
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14 (Thu May 31 09:03:25 2007 UTC).
--- End /proc/asound/version ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/cards ---
 0 [I82801DBICH4   ]: ICH4 - Intel 82801DB-ICH4
                      Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with AD1981B at irq 5
 1 [Modem          ]: ICH-MODEM - Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem
                      Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem at irq 5
--- End /proc/asound/cards ---
--- Begin /dev/snd/ listing ---
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  0 Mar  2 12:07 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 32 Mar  2 12:07 controlC1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 Mar  2 12:07 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 Mar  2 12:07 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 25 Mar  2 12:07 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 26 Mar  2 12:07 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 27 Mar  2 12:07 pcmC0D3c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 20 Mar  2 12:07 pcmC0D4p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 56 Mar  2 12:07 pcmC1D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 48 Mar  2 12:07 pcmC1D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 Mar  2 12:07 timer
--- End /dev/snd/ listing ---

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  linux-sound-base           1.0.16-1      base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsof                       4.78.dfsg.1-4 List open files
ii  module-init-tools          3.3-pre11-4   tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages alsa-base recommends:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.15-3   ALSA utilities

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-6      GNU C Library: Shared libraries

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