'Twas brillig, and Brian J. Murrell at 05/03/09 22:32 did gyre and gimble: > I'm using 0.9.15-test3 with various applications including rhythmbox and > I am noticing the audio will be distorted and clipping at times, although > the overall output volume is quite reasonable (I'm 40, not 15). > > Looking in the volume control I have RB set (in the Playback tab) at 49% > volume and the actual sound card (in Output Devices) at 49% also. These > seem like reasonable values that should not cause the louder sequences in > various tracks to distort or clip. They certainly didn't with the 0.9.10 > that I am upgrading from. > > Oh crap. Having the volume control open just triggered: > > E: core.h: Assertion 'pa_object_refcnt(pa_object_cast(o)) > 0' failed at ./pulsecore/core.h:159, function pa_core_assert_ref(). Aborting. If you can get a backtrace for that it would be helpful. On it's own it's sadly pretty meaningless :( Also please try rolling up a -test5 build now that it's available :) Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]