[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#545083: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#545083: alsa-base: Audio output lags on Intel HD Audio with AD1984 chipset

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Bailin Deng [090906 14:25 +0200]
> 2009/9/6 Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie at lxtec.de>:
> > * Bailin Deng [090906 08:33 +0200]
> >> I upgraded to kernel  2.6.30, but the problem remained.
> >
> > I see you don't have much experience in emailing, because you're
> > always topposting, which makes reading your answers somewhat
> > terrible.
> > http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&source=hp&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=topposting&btnG=Google-Suche&meta=
> Thank you for the pointer. Hopefully I can now make it more readable:)

Sure ;-)

> >
> >> I think this is a bug of alsa instead of pulseaudio.
> >
> > Increasing the watermark is responsible for laaging your sound
> > output. Please notice, that alsa-sink.c is a file of the pulseaudio
> > source package. Please point me to the possible reason if I am
> > wrong.
> >
> >> All my applications that directly use alsa as output have such
> >> problem. The problem has appeared __BEFORE__ I installed
> >> pulseaudio on my system.  So it should be something related to
> >> alsa.
> >
> > Hmm, but not that lagging. As said before on my AD1984 chipset all
> > sounds well. Maybe you customized your pulseaudio setting in a wrong
> > way? For testing you should purge all pulseaudio packages, check
> > lagging and syslog and come back with the error infos to this
> > bugreport. Don't forget to backup your pulseaudio settings before.
> 
> Actually the lagging problem came BEFORE I installed pulseaudio. I
> just installed pulseaudio in order to use skype. Surprisingly, after I
> purge the pulseaudio packages, the problem is gone.  It is really
> strange.  I also remember that BEFORE I installed pulseaudio, for
> several times I checked the /var/log/syslog file, hoping to find out
> the reason for the lagging problem. And I always found a lot of error
> messages about  wireless network, like "ath5k phy0: noise floor
> calibration timeout (2412MHz)".

Mybe you tried to hear sound from networkstreamings?

> And now there is no such error message
> from ath5k, and the audio is also working fine. I am not sure whether
> there is any connection between the ath5k error and the audio lagging.
> But anyway, I am glad that the audio finally works now.

Fine. Now you have to solve how to interact alsa with the latest
pulseaudio version ((0.9.15-4.1).

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Have fun
Elimar

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