Hello. This.patch works like a charm. aplay is good and also mplayer works fine. Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Takashi Iwai" <tiwai@xxxxxxx> To: "Peter Hanzel" <hanzelpeter@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 3:17 PM Subject: Re: ALSA in kernel 2.6.30.1 in VMWare > At Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:06:39 +0200, > Peter Hanzel wrote: >> >> Hello. >> >> The pcm_lib.c from 2.6.29 is working. >> Exactly this: >> git checkout 1c85cc64456c97f3b265788abafec5c482c6a908 >> sound/core/pcm_lib.c >> >> Is the good one. I recompiled 2.6.30 with this pcm_lib.c from that >> checkout >> and it works like a charm. > > OK. Then ignoring the bogus update would be a solution. > Try the patch below with the latest code. Does it work? > (You shouldn't set xrun_debug proc file in this case. Otherwise you'll > get many messages.) > > > Takashi > > --- > diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_lib.c b/sound/core/pcm_lib.c > index 333e4dd..3b673e2 100644 > --- a/sound/core/pcm_lib.c > +++ b/sound/core/pcm_lib.c > @@ -244,18 +244,27 @@ static int snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr_interrupt(struct > snd_pcm_substream *substream) > delta = new_hw_ptr - hw_ptr_interrupt; > } > if (delta < 0) { > - delta += runtime->buffer_size; > + if (runtime->periods == 1) > + delta += runtime->buffer_size; > if (delta < 0) { > hw_ptr_error(substream, > "Unexpected hw_pointer value " > "(stream=%i, pos=%ld, intr_ptr=%ld)\n", > substream->stream, (long)pos, > (long)hw_ptr_interrupt); > +#if 1 > + /* simply skipping the hwptr update seems more > + * robust in some cases, e.g. on VMware with > + * inaccurate timer source > + */ > + return 0; /* skip this update */ > +#else > /* rebase to interrupt position */ > hw_base = new_hw_ptr = hw_ptr_interrupt; > /* align hw_base to buffer_size */ > hw_base -= hw_base % runtime->buffer_size; > delta = 0; > +#endif > } else { > hw_base += runtime->buffer_size; > if (hw_base >= runtime->boundary) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user