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FS#15405 - [kernel26] push of the sound in any audio player

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dmitry (veranyon) - Monday, 06 July 2009, 14:50 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 13 July 2009, 15:43 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Kernel
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
When I open amarok or xmms player and plays music when I hear the jerk playing in the tracks.
It was under 2.6.28 kernel. There is now. Under the 2.6.30 kernel.

I attached a dmidecode and dmesg out file. There's configuration of my hardware.
My soundcard is audigy CA0106 (external).
I don't use pulse/etc systems. Use my sound directly. to alsa.
Happens when you play any audio stream (mp3, wav, etc)

Additional info:
I'm using the most updated software.
The kernel didn't rebuilding configuration files didn't changing

Thanks
   out.tar.bz2 (13.8 KiB)
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Monday, 13 July 2009, 15:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  see the last comments
Comment by Dmitry (veranyon) - Wednesday, 08 July 2009, 11:33 GMT
Is someone considering this bagreport?
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Wednesday, 08 July 2009, 16:45 GMT
It's been only two days since you posted the report.
There are many kernel-related bugreports and the developer this bug was assigned to is quite busy.
So it is not reasonable to expect immediate work on the issue.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Wednesday, 08 July 2009, 16:58 GMT
BTW, there are 138 (correction: only 64 open) bugreports about CA0106 on https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/ so I suggest first looking there (for example, bug #4029),
and if your problem is not reported yet - register and report it. This will greatly improve chances for it to be fixed.
Comment by Dmitry (veranyon) - Wednesday, 08 July 2009, 17:57 GMT
But, I do not have this problem, nor under Slackware, Debian, and not under other Linux OS.
They do not let this release is likely. And you have admitted.
You will be put in the "beta" distribution, but I will directly write bagreports to developer?

I do not use Linux from scratch, and distribution. Are You the same as it monitors the quality of that spread?

Is That not true? Am I beta tester?
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 09 July 2009, 07:42 GMT
I'm not sure I understood your last comment correctly.

You are not using beta software. The fact that there are bugs in stable kernel/ALSA releases doesn't mean they are beta.
There are always some bugs even in the "stable" releases of any software.
And ALSA subsystem is known to always be problematic for some people, there is no way around it (it's mostly true for hardware support in general).

What I was trying to say is that usually we cannot fix upstream bugs in software because we don't have enough resources for that.
What we can do is applying some existing patch or tweaking some option or something like that.
So reporting bugs to official developers helps fixing bug in Arch as well, because:
1) upstream developers have more resources for that,
2) they are more experienced in fixing bugs in software they made themselves than we are.

If the problem you described does not exist on some other distros - it would be helpful if you provided information about what kernel/ALSA versions do they use and if they use some patches that could be related to your issue (in case they use some patch - we could include it in our kernel package as well).
Comment by Dmitry (veranyon) - Friday, 10 July 2009, 11:25 GMT
I put it https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=4618

I created bagreport here https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=4618 , if you are interested, or you can share any more information there.
Once again, thank you for your feedback.
Comment by Dmitry (veranyon) - Sunday, 12 July 2009, 23:32 GMT
Switched to OSS (4front technogies) drivers. All the rockets disappeared, and the sound had was quality, for some reason. Strange. Cleaner or something ..

problem was closed.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 13 July 2009, 15:43 GMT
Okay, so I assume this report can be closed now, since there is no-one to keep track of its status.
I guess ALSA developers will fix this sometime since it is now posted on their bugtracker (thank you for that!).

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