[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#539364: pulseaudio: alsa plugin eats all cpu with snd-hda-intel

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 02:23:32AM -0300, Gonzalo Berm?dez wrote:
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 0.9.15-4.1
> Severity: important
> 
> Applications that rely on ALSA and thus use the ALSA plugin for PulseAudio
> eat up 100% CPU time. Also, sound is choppy and stops working at some point i
> couldn't determine. Example of these apps are Ekiga, or packages that use sdl
> if libsdl-alsa is installed However, native pulseaudio apps such as Rhythmbox
> or the same sdl apps with sdl-pulseaudio installed work perfectly.
> 
> I tried to obtain a console output for pulseaudio to attach here, but the
> file is huge and I didn't find anything I could identify as the source of the
> problem.

Does this happen with all alsa applications ? It's important to note that alsa
plugins (like the pulseaudio one), do not always react as some alsa programs
assume even though they are a valid implementation of the alsa interface.

Most of thse support pulseaudio natively these days, such as SDL. I'm not sure
what the current situation with ekiga is, is it still broken when used with
pulse?

  Sjoerd
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