Dear PulseAudio folks,
Am Freitag, den 07.06.2013, 00:42 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:
> using Debian Wheezy with Linux 3.2.x and (unfortunately) PulseAudio 2.0,
>
> !!DMI Information
> !!---------------
>
> Manufacturer: ASROCK
> Product Name: E350M1
> Product Version: 1.0
> Firmware Version: 4.0-4163-g417d992
>
>
> !!Kernel Information
> !!------------------
>
> Kernel release: 3.2.0-4-686-pae
> Operating System: GNU/Linux
> Architecture: i686
> Processor: unknown
> SMP Enabled: Yes
>
>
> !!ALSA Version
> !!------------
>
> Driver version: 1.0.24
> Library version: 1.0.25
> Utilities version: 1.0.25
>
>
> when playing YouTube movie or playing an online stream using
> Iceweasel/Firefox, sound suddenly gets distorted (very high tones and
> *not* understandable anymore. Jumping forward in the stream increases
> chances that this gets triggers. Sometimes pausing and resuming fixes
> this issue but sometimes it does not help at all. I could not reproduce
> this with another application yet.
looking into it, it was easily reproducible by just running
`speaker-test`.
$ speaker-test -c 2 -t sine
After the channel is switch or when it is repeated the tone would get
distorted.
> When increasing the log level to debug, I get the following messages.
>
> $ more /var/log/syslog
> [?]
> ? [alsa-sink] flist.c: pulsecore/memblockq.c: list_items flist is full (don't worry)
> [?]
> ? [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Cutting sleep time for the initial iterations by half.
> [?]
>
> Please find more verbose logs and the output of `alsa-info.sh` [1]
> attached.
>
> Does this point to a problem in PulseAudio or the ALSA driver? Or
> something else?
Discussing this in #pulseaudio on <irc.freenode.net> I was told that
this is likely a Linux ALSA driver problem. Taking out the disk and
connecting it to a different board with a Realtek ALC888 audio chip, I
had the same problem though.
Then I installed PulseAudio 4.0-3 from Debian Sid/unstable and the
problem is gone now.
Does that imply, that it was an error in PulseAudio 2.0? Or is
PulseAudio 4.0 able to work around ALSA driver bugs?
> Any help on how to fix this is appreciated a lot as Debian Wheezy is
> going to be the recommended flavor(?) for the next two years and it
> would be nice to get this fixed in there.
Thanks,
Paul
> [1] http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Help_To_Debug
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