F10 Strange Audio Errors

Peter Langfelder peter.langfelder at gmail.com
Fri Dec 26 02:52:31 UTC 2008


On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Sean Bruno <sean.bruno at dsl-only.net> wrote:
> I'm seeing strange audio issues(skipping and buffering) when playing
> audio from Amarok(1.4), Audacity and from the video game Quake Wars.
>
> I have an on-board sound card:
> 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97
> Audio Controller (rev a2)
>
> And a USB Turntable:
> Bus 002 Device 005: ID 08bb:2900 Texas Instruments Japan PCM2900 Audio
> Codec
>
> Periodically, while Amarok(1.4) is playing back I see:
> Dec 25 16:48:45 localhost pulseaudio[15582]: module-alsa-sink.c: ALSA
> woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually
> nothing to write! Most likely t
> his is an ALSA driver bug. Please report this issue to the PulseAudio
> developers.
>
> When Audacity is recording from the USB turntable I see:
> ALSA sound/usb/usbaudio.c:351: frame 0 active: -70
>
> And when Quake Wars is running, I see the following in the console
> output:
> snd_pcm_readi failed: Input/output error
> snd_pcm_readi failed: Input/output error
> snd_pcm_readi failed: Input/output error
>
>
> Any ideas as to what is going on here?
>
> Sean
>

I used to experience similar skipping and hesitating from Amarok
1.4... until I removed PulseAudio. Now amarok plays smoothly.

Peter




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