[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#522598: work around to improve the situation a bit - NOT

[H. S.]

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at luon.net> wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 01:11:02PM -0400, H. S. wrote:
>>
>> Yes, the problem is still there. Just tried mplayer with an avi file
>> and also bunch of videos on some web sites.
>>
>> I am using:
>> pulseaudio: 0.9.15-1
>> alsa-base: 1.0.19.dfsg-3
>> kernel: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (ver. 2.6.26-15)
>
> Can you try with alsa 1.0.20 and kernel 2.6.29? Quite a few alsa bugs have been
> fixed as a result of pulseaudio hitting bugs in recent kernels.
>

It looks like 2.6.29 is not in Testing yet, and neither is the version
of alsa you mention.

However, I have a machine running unstable which has these version of
the packages. The logs there have lines like these:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
 alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 89.80 ms

 alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but
there was actually nothing to write!
 alsa-sink.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver
'snd_usb_audio'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
 alsa-sink.c: We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a
subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail.
 alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 40.00 ms
 ratelimit.c: 18 events suppressed
--------------------------------------------------------------------


So, it appears as if the problem is in the newer packages as well. The
machine running Unstable has totally different hardware than the
Testing machine I originally reported.

Please let me know if you would like me to run any more debugging steps.
Regards.