On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Rares Aioanei wrote: > I have an audio biggie with my old laptop, which can't seem to play > audio (mp3,ogg) or video (the sound part) (flv) with mplayer , mpg321 > , xmms or mp3blaster. The sound is choppy, all I get is noise. From what I've > read (google) there were some issues of the kind a few years ago, but > no recent problem reports similar to mine exist. I start aucat as root > with "nice -n 20 aucat -l -b 7000 -m play -f /dev/audio0" then "mplayer > (or other players) <filename>" . I searched the misc@ archives to no end. > Even if I start aucat only with the -l flag (without the other options), the > result is the same. The CPU load does not spike while playing, nor after. > I've played audio/video on this machine in the past without issues, even > though it's somewhat underpowered. Here's the dmesg and sorry if I wasn't > clear enough.
It's been a long time, but there's something wrong with clcs that causes this. I'm not sure if it's the chip or the driver, but the interrupts don't seem to be synced right. IIRC, sometimes rebooting will work. Or was it that it only worked after a cold boot? Something like that.
