Kristin Low wrote: > Hi, > > I was hoping someone could help me solve my ALSA problems, as I'm > still somewhat new to Linux. I'm running Ubuntu Hardy Heron and > haven't changed any config files however ALSA does not work properly > and I assume that because of this, Pulseaudio doesn't work either > since the problems come hand-in-hand. Playing a song, I can hear the > song for a random length of time and then it cuts out. If I run VLC > from a terminal, it claims "alsa output error: write error (broken > pipe)" as the cause and continues to write that over the screen until > I force VLC to quit. If I restart the song again, the same thing > occurs. When I login, only part of the login sounds play and are cut > just the same as any songs or audio files I try. It seems like my > sound card is detected fine, and OSS works. It's on a Toshiba > Satellite a70. Please help! I've never had ALSA working properly. > > > Below I've listed the alsa-info.txt as per > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems. > > > Thanks, > > Kristin > This is kind of a wild question, but are you using the modem while trying to play sound? They have the same IRQ and there might be a conflict. If you aren't using the modem is there a way to disable it using a jumper on the board? What happens if you disable pulseaudio completely and try playing sound? After you have disabled pulseaudio, try aplay -D plughw:0,0 some.wav . If this works, it is pulseaudio causing the problem. This comes off the Frinika page http://frinika.sourceforge.net/ It should give your sound higher priority. I don't know that it will work, but it might help. ... Frinika with realtime priority using Ubuntu Linux (Feisty) <http://frinika.sourceforge.net/?p=12> May 15th, 2007 Modify: /etc/security/limits.conf: @audio - rtprio 90 @audio - nice -5 @audio - memlock 50000 And make your user member of the audio group. You will then experience very stable sound and be able to use low latencies! ... You could also download and install the latest alsa library and drivers http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.17rc2_v1.0.17rc3 If nothing above helps, try posting on the alsa-devel list. There might be something wrong with the driver. The developers will have a better idea of that than me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
