Hi Thanks for your reply. I tried to answer your questions below. On 13 August 2010 17:06, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote: > We have had many problems with VMware, too :) > Which sound backend are you using? Direct ALSA / dmix or PA? I believe it's direct ALSA, I have choppy output even with aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/*.wav > Actually, there is no real interrupt, but just the virtual one, > thus it can be never accurate. So, rather the question is how the > driver is tolerant for sloppy IRQ updates. > > Usually, when the period size is large and the buffer have many > periods (not two), the delayed update works more stably. I am afraid I don't understand this :) I am compiling a kernel with the following options enabled: CONFIG_SND_PCM_XRUN_DEBUG, CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PROCFS, CONFIG_SND_DEBUG Would any of these help to determine the cause and suggest a fix? Lex _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
