I upgraded to kernel 2.6.30, but the problem remained. I think this is a bug of alsa instead of pulseaudio. 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.
2009/9/6 Elimar Riesebieter <riese...@lxtec.de>: > severity 545083 normal > reassign 545083 pulseaudio > merge 545083 534801 > thanks > > * Bailin Deng [090905 22:29 +0200] >> I got this problem with mplayer, vlc, audacious, skype, and adobe >> flash player plugin (basically any application that use alsa as audio >> output). I also have pulseaudio in my system(because skype requires >> that). But the problem already existed before I stalled pulseaudio. >> Besides, I am using 2.6.26. Does the current alsa package require a >> high kernel version? > > Yes. According to > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534801 > you should either fix it by changing the hal module in > /etc/pulse/default.pa to: > ad-module module-hal-detect tsched=0 > or upgrade your kernel to at least 2.6.30. > > I hereby merge your bug with 534801. And please let us know whether > you could fix it like described above ;-) > >> I also checked the /var/log/syslog, and found pulseaudio reporting >> problems from alsa: >> >> Sep 5 09:06:01 dbl-pc pulseaudio[3689]: alsa-sink.c: Error opening >> PCM device front:0: Device or resource busy >> Sep 5 09:06:01 dbl-pc pulseaudio[3689]: alsa-sink.c: Error opening >> PCM device front:0: Device or resource busy >> Sep 5 11:03:31 dbl-pc pulseaudio[3689]: alsa-sink.c: Increasing >> wakeup watermark to 30.00 ms > [...] >> >> 2009/9/5 Elimar Riesebieter <riese...@lxtec.de>: >> > * Bailin Deng [090905 08:19 +0200] >> >> I am using squeeze on a Thinkpad R61 with AD1984 audio chipset. After >> >> a recent upgrade, the audio output freezes for a short time (about 0.1 >> >> sec) every a few seconds. The time intervals between each "freeze" >> >> event varies from 10 secs to about 40 secs. When playing a video or >> >> audio file, the playback hangs for a short time whenever such audio >> >> freeze event happens, and becomes laggy and annoying. >> > >> > Which applications did you run recognizing this behaviour? >> > >> > I am running sid on a t61p with exactly the same chipset and no >> > probs at all. There seems to be a problem either with your kernel or >> > with your whatever soundserver you use. Not enough diskspace could >> > be a reason as well. Could you please check your /var/log/syslog for >> > reasonable errors? You can grep the file i.e. for audio or alsa. > > Elimar > > -- > Planung: > Ersatz des Zufalls durch den Irrtum. > -unknown- > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkqjCs4ACgkQ3Ig8bsVPf7AUewCghwOATN+TOiIZkDHPCc/oiKw2 > raEAoLgvnSJ8gm7WjniL2qsh2BzGMqGr > =qKIW > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
