Here's the output during some skipping. It happens with or without pulse if I have any application playing sound to my xfi. Do not have the same problem if output goes to integrated intel: cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/* access: MMAP_INTERLEAVED format: S16_LE subformat: STD channels: 1 rate: 44100 (44100/1) period_size: 32768 buffer_size: 65536 card: 0 device: 0 subdevice: 0 stream: PLAYBACK id: ctxfi name: Front/WaveIn subname: subdevice #0 class: 0 subclass: 0 subdevices_count: 8 subdevices_avail: 7 128 128 state: RUNNING trigger_time: 74684.238387841 tstamp : 74702.900700135 delay : 2664 avail : 62872 avail_max : 62872 ----- hw_ptr : 822976 appl_ptr : 825640 tstamp_mode: ENABLE period_step: 1 avail_min: 63069 start_threshold: 4294967295 stop_threshold: 1073741824 silence_threshold: 0 silence_size: 0 boundary: 1073741824 On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 11:29 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:52:35 -0500, > Ted T. Logan wrote: > > > > I killed pulseaudio and the problem is the same as far as every few seconds, > > just a different sound. it seems to be the xfi driver. > > Please be more specific, what apps did you test and how, and on which > hardware, with which alsa-driver. There is no svn alsa-driver at > all, at least, as I know of. > > If it's emu20k1 chip (not emu20k2), try use_system_timer=1 module > option snd-ctxfi driver. This will take the timer management back to > the old one using the system timer. > > > thanks, > > Takashi > > > I did not have this problem with XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00.tar.gz > > however, I am trying to get away from that driver because of other issues. > > > > Thanks! > > > > On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 03:39 -0500, Ted T. Logan wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I upgraded to fedora 11 with PA 9.15 and got the svn alsa-driver and > > installed it for the x-fi driver. > > > > The problem is, with pulseaudio, i get a pop every few seconds > > like, every 3 seconds, "pop" and it does it over and over and over > > > > I seem to get no sound at all with the card if I bypass pulse > > > > What can I do? > > > > _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel