At Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:10:37 +0200, Daniel Bankmann wrote: > > 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;) Try the latest alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz. It should be improved now unless you are using emu20k2, not emu20k1. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel