On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 20:26 +0200, Julian Sikorski wrote: > W dniu 23.05.2013 20:10, Julian Sikorski pisze: > > W dniu 23.05.2013 19:32, Arun Raghavan pisze: > >> On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 19:22 +0200, Julian Sikorski wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> this was annoying me long enough that I have decided to investigate. > >>> Basically, I am using skype-4.2 and pulseaudio-2.1 on fedora 18 x86_64. > >>> Whenever skype produces a sound event (incoming message bleep, logging > >>> in sound), buzzing noise will occur. This is especially prominent when > >>> playing a song in the background. I have looked at the log and the error > >>> message seems to be this: > >>> > >>> D: [alsa-sink] memblock.c: Pool full > >>> D: [alsa-sink] memblock.c: Pool full > >>> D: [alsa-sink] memblock.c: Pool full > >>> > >>> I have attached a full log. I know that PA 2.1 is really old now, but > >>> Fedora seems to be having hard time aligning with PA releases these days. > >> > >> This happens because PulseAudio didn't handle low latency requests well > >> enough. This has been fixed recently, and will be available in the next > >> release (or in one of the 3.99.x prereleases if you can get a package > >> for it). > >> > >> -- Arun > >> > > That's great to hear! Hopefully 4.0 will make it to Fedora 19, otherwise > > it will be in Fedora 20 which is slated for a January release. It's > > funny to think that Fedora was once the distro advocating pulseaudio. > > > > Julian > > > I just talked to the Fedora PA maintainer and unfortunately F-19 is too > far past freeze to ship PA 4.0. > Is the fix you mention possible to backport to 3.0 (which is what F-19 > is going to be shipping)? This is the one you'll want: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=5f326b705d8f7f0c14e7e0c7d7c2751f3a5ebe43 Cheers, Arun