On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 10:55 AM, Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > Hi. > > I am running testing on a fairly normal i3-based PC. Since yesterday, it > is using the 4.17.0-1-amd64 kernel instead of 4.16.0-2-amd64, and I am > experiencing the following two issues: > > The device for the audio controller takes about 0.3 seconds to open. I > have just rebooted on 4.16, and with it the delay is imperceptible. (And > yes, 0.3 seconds for that is a problem for me.) The audio device is > listed as "ALC892 Analog". > > More severe: from time to time, process doing disk access go into D > state but the disk stays idle; the kernel reports nothing at all (in > particular: no reset of the ATA bus). They can stay like that for a few > seconds, a few dozens seconds, and I had a firefox freeze for several > minutes until I got fed up and pressed the power button; the shutdown > was clean. I had no such problem with 4.16.0-2-amd64, and I will be > careful to see if they happen now that I have rebooted with the oldest > kernel. > > Does anyone experience the same problems? > > > (To test the audio delay issue, you can use the following commands: > ffmpeg -lavfi sine=d=0.5 sine.wav > aplay sine.wav > The beep sound should be instantaneous, except possibly on the first run > if aplay and libraries are not yet loaded from disk.) > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas George
I'm having an audio issue with this same kernel: there's a permanent buzz that starts at soon as the system has loaded and only stops when I play some sound (any audio or video) or starts JACK (via qjackctl). I remember something similar in an old version of antiX (a debian-testing based distro) some time ago. Any recomendation? Thanks!
