On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 08:50 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Chris at 14/07/10 01:23 did gyre and gimble: > > I've just recently upgraded to Mandriva 2010.1 hoping that the above > > problems would go away. They haven't. I'm still seeing syslog entries > > like this: > > > > pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_delay() returned a value that is > > exceptionally large: -161920 bytes (-917 ms). > > localhost pulseaudio[24553]: alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in > > the ALSA driver 'snd_ens1371'. Please report this issue to the ALSA > > developers. > > > Is this an Alsa issue or a Pulseaudio issue. Other than disabling > > pulseaudio how can I attempt to correct this? > > The clue is on the line above. The issue is that the driver (i.e. from > the kernel) is giving bogus information to PA. > > You can perhaps work around the problem by disabling "Glitch Free" mode > via draksound, but the problem should really be reported to the Alsa > guys via alsa-dev mailing list (I find it's more productive than their > bug tracker). > > Col > I've always had 'Glitch Free' mode disabled after our conversation on this when in happened in 2010.0. I've reported this to the alsa-dev list and the only one who responded way Raymond Yau who, as before, replied with I need to run pulseaudio -k ; pulseaudio -vvvvv. I've done that and have a bzip2 file of 9k, was 129k. I don't know what to do with the log file now though. Is this a Mandriva issue? Thanks Chris -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20100714/b4151bf7/attachment.pgp>
