Takashi Iwai schrieb: > At Fri, 22 May 2009 11:54:47 +0200, > Daniel Bankmann wrote: >> Takashi Iwai schrieb: >>> At Thu, 21 May 2009 09:53:23 +0200, >>> Daniel Bankmann wrote: >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> I just tested the newest driver version with Open Suse 11.1 and >>>> pae-kernel. I seems not to work probably, although the latest "official" >>>> driver by Creative worked more or less good. >>>> >>>> The problem is, that always, when hearing some music or any other sound, >>>> the signal gets interrupted every few seconds. At the other side, the >>>> startup jingle for example is accompanied by a knock every few seconds. >>>> >>>> Any idea, or what information do you need to fix this? >>> If you are using pulseaudio, try to upgrade to the one in Factory. >>> PA on 11.1 is really a crappy version, unfortunately. >>> >>> >>> Takashi >>> >> Hi, >> >> are you sure, that this is a problem with PA? > > Depends on your system setup. As default, PA is used on KDE and GNOME, > regardless of h/w multi-stream functions. > >> Upgrading to the newest >> version or the one in Factory seems to be a bit tricky (because auf >> missing dependencies). > > You can upgrade the packages on OBS multimedia:libs repo. > >> Shouldn't the driver just work without PA and ESD installed? I tried >> that out, but the problem still resists. > > It's not the driver to decide whether to use PA or not. It's the > upper part. > > If the problem still occurs without PA (and you make sure that you > don't use it), the issue is likely the hwptr update timing of the > ctxfi driver. The recent PCM core has a more strict check, and > possibly ctxfi might not provide the correct DMA position. > > Anyway, please check the problem occurs with which apps more exactly. > At best, try to reproduce with aplay and speaker-test programs, i.e. > with less complexity. And, please report back to alsa-devel ML. > (Note that your post may appear later after manual approvals if you > aren't subscribed yet). > > > thanks, > > Takashi > Hi, so I tried reproducing this problem. Here's a link to a wav-file which includes tests with aplay and the starting/shutdown -jingle. I hope this can give you a better idea of my problem;) Daniel http://rapidshare.com/files/239574432/output_test.wav _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
