On Tue, 22.07.08 12:17, Sean McNamara (smcnam at gmail.com) wrote: > I have an ICH8-based snd-hda-intel card in my ThinkPad X61. In > addition to the latest GIT alsa, I am using the latest GIT pulseaudio. > Although I had some issues getting it to run system-wide, I haven't > unearthed any distortion or static yet! I have just been using > Rhythmbox, Flash, and Pidgin as my main PA clients (or ALSA<->PA, as > the case may be) -- the only thing I notice is that most streams, > except paplay which is always perfect, have a brief dropout at the > beginning. It isn't a periodic dropout, I played a 10 minute long MP3 > and indeed, the only dropout for the duration of the stream was at the > beginning! I tried fiddling with fragment sizes in daemon.conf after I > experienced this problem, but haven't had any luck yet. The relevance of the frag sizes from daemon.conf is rather minimal when you use glitch-free PA. Could you check if the problem goes away if you pass tsched=0 to the alsa-sink module? (this disables glitch-free, and reverts to classic playback) Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
