[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#575669: Bug#575669: glitchy sound when increasing/decreasing volume on snd-hda-intel

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Carlos Laviola [100328 06:25 -0300]
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 06:12, Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie at lxtec.de> wrote:
> >
> > * Carlos Laviola [100328 03:14 -0300]
> > > As discussed with Daniel T. Chen (crimsun) on #pulseaudio at freenode,
> > > there seems to be an underlying bug on alsa that makes pulseaudio
> > > volume control introduce various glitches and noise to whatever's
> > > being played.  Passing 'position_fix=1' to the module as suggested
> > > works around the problem.
> >
> > Which module?
> 
> Sorry, I should obviously have mentioned that; 'snd-hda-intel'.

Well, I am running that driver and it works great with puleaudio
even without that option.

If you want lo load position_fix=1 do as root:

# echo "options snd_hda_intel position_fix=1" >> /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf
# alsa force-reload
or
# reboot

Elimar

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