F10 Pulseaudio problem

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 16:11 +0000, Neil Bird wrote:
> Around about 03/02/09 03:53, RDB typed ...
> > pulseaudio[5501]: module-alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to
> >  write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write! Most 
> > likely this is an ALSA driver bug. Please report this issue to the PulseAudio 
> > developers.
> 
>    You might be suffering what I was;  I forget where google took me to find 
> the solution, but it's to do with using some new scheme to schedule 
> pusleaudio (using timers instead of interrupts?).
> 
>    Anyhow, the workaround was to use the old mechanism:  edit 
> /etc/pulse/default.pa and find the following, adding the "tsched=0" bit 
> (which won't be there in yours).
> 
> .ifexists module-hal-detect.so
> load-module module-hal-detect tsched=0
> .else

When I tried that a few days back, my CPU usage went through the roof
and the machine threatened to melt :-) I removed it and magically
everything started to work.

poc