F10 Strange Audio Errors

[Sean Bruno]

On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 18:52 -0800, Peter Langfelder wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Sean Bruno <sean.bruno at dsl-only.net> wrote:
> > I'm seeing strange audio issues(skipping and buffering) when playing
> > audio from Amarok(1.4), Audacity and from the video game Quake Wars.
> >
> > I have an on-board sound card:
> > 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97
> > Audio Controller (rev a2)
> >
> > And a USB Turntable:
> > Bus 002 Device 005: ID 08bb:2900 Texas Instruments Japan PCM2900 Audio
> > Codec
> >
> > Periodically, while Amarok(1.4) is playing back I see:
> > Dec 25 16:48:45 localhost pulseaudio[15582]: module-alsa-sink.c: ALSA
> > woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually
> > nothing to write! Most likely t
> > his is an ALSA driver bug. Please report this issue to the PulseAudio
> > developers.
> >
> > When Audacity is recording from the USB turntable I see:
> > ALSA sound/usb/usbaudio.c:351: frame 0 active: -70
> >
> > And when Quake Wars is running, I see the following in the console
> > output:
> > snd_pcm_readi failed: Input/output error
> > snd_pcm_readi failed: Input/output error
> > snd_pcm_readi failed: Input/output error
> >
> >
> > Any ideas as to what is going on here?
> >
> > Sean
> >
> 
> I used to experience similar skipping and hesitating from Amarok
> 1.4... until I removed PulseAudio. Now amarok plays smoothly.
> 
> Peter
> 
I assume that requires more than just stopping the pulse audio demon?

Sean