F10 Strange Audio Errors

[oleksandr korneta]

on 12/26/2008 11:32 AM Sean Bruno wrote:
> 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?
> 

I did not want to test my luck so removed everything related to 
pulseaudio in addition, except

$ rpm -qa | grep pulse
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.13-6.fc10.i386
pulseaudio-core-libs-0.9.13-6.fc10.i386
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.13-6.fc10.i386
pulseaudio-libs-devel-0.9.13-6.fc10.i386
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.13-6.fc10.i386
pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf-0.9.13-6.fc10.i386


because those serve as dependencies for something else I have installed 
and want to keep.

it's a shame, since I had no luck with pulseaudio since F8 and really 
was hoping to keep it in F10 finally.

-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

I'm running F9 x86_64 and F10 i386 on x86_64 hardware, should this matter.

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