Mark Greenwood wrote: > On Tuesday 21 Apr 2009 22:15:42 H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Since last several weeks, all audio on my Debian Squeeze system (kernel >> 2.6.26-2-686) is interrupted with short pauses, making sound choppy. It >> affects video as well (mplayer, gxine, youtube, etc.). Videos (avi >> files, youtube videos) and audio and also video telephony is not working >> properly anymore. >> >> I have pulseaudio version 0.9.14-2. >> > > <snip> > >> Anybody know how to solve this problem? > > I'm guessing, as I don't have that card, but I had similar problems and the following worked for me. > > Try editing /etc/pulse/default.pa and change > load-module module-hal-detect > to > load-module module-hal-detect tsched=0 Aha! You gave the same suggestion as is given in the last paras here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GlitchFreeAudio#Release_Notes It has worked to remove the choppyness. But the messages in syslog are still being logged. > This switches off the new glitch-free mode which, due to various problems with buggy ALSA drivers and kernels with needlessly high latency, isn't. > > There is a link somewhere which explains this, but I can't find it. It seems my Google finger is broken :) So the problem is in Alsa actually? Any news if a newer version of alsa fixes the problem? Also, from various attempts at google searches during the last several weeks, I have discovered that the problem is not only on the card that I have, other cards have also exhibited the same. Thanks. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read.
