In another thread I reported problems with aplaymidi with a 'Creative SB AWE64 PnP' board. Once the right modules were loaded and a sound font installed with asfxload, aplaymidi (and similar programs) just played a single note. strace showed that the last call was ioctl(3, SNDRV_SEQ_IOCTL_SET_CLIENT_POOL, 0xbf8f1130) = 0, but that the cpu was very busy: the time was being used by chronyd (http://chrony.sunsite.dk/) which was pathological. Stopping the chronyd daemon cleared the problem: aplaymidi then worked properly. Restarting chronyd sometimes blocked a new invocation of aplaymidi, but not on all occasions. This is on a debian sarge system (with some backports) but with a stock 2.6.18-3 kernel. However, I am confident that the problem has been around through several generations of recent kernels: probably since I installed chronyd. I am intending to bug report this, at least to the chrony people and into the debian bugzilla system. I doubt that this is very specific to this system, and I am not sure what information would be most relevant to the maintainers and developers. A Lawrence ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
