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FS#23836 - [skype] 2.2.0.25-1 randomized crashes and noisy sound with pulse and somes sound card

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by synflag (synflag) - Tuesday, 19 April 2011, 02:30 GMT
Last edited by Florian Pritz (bluewind) - Friday, 01 July 2011, 17:24 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Multilib
Status Closed
Assigned To Gavin Bisesi (Daenyth)
Florian Pritz (bluewind)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Skype 2.2.0.25-1 crashes ocasionally and sound is very strange, with pulse and some sound cards, same bug that VLC 1.1.9 reported and deleted by giovanni (no solved, he use alsa, not can reproduce bug).
Alsa+pulse+skype 2.2.0.25 crash, noise, and after some minutes fix only.
More users with this problem:

Reference: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=917631

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.
Skype 2.2.0.25-1 alsa + pulse + phonon-xine + KDE + ALC888 Realtek onboard sound card (azalia modules: snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer)

Steps to reproduce:

Open skype, and enjoy the noise.
Temporal fix, pacman -U http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64/skype-2.1.0.81-5.1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Thanks.
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Closed by  Florian Pritz (bluewind)
Friday, 01 July 2011, 17:24 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by synflag (synflag) - Tuesday, 19 April 2011, 08:37 GMT
Partially solved the noise continues, but only 14 seconds to start the sound Skype.

Howto:

Disable alsa daemon in rc.conf
Creating asound.state with low level of master and PCM
Modify /etc/pulse/daemon.conf, sample rate 44100 to 48000
Add in /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf this line: options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-dig

With this ""fix"" only noisy 4 seconds after start Skype, generating at start

Apr 19 05:13:30 localhost pulseaudio[1630]: ratelimit.c: 2928 events suppressed

And 14 seconds later:

Apr 19 05:13:44 localhost pulseaudio[1630]: ratelimit.c: 47 events suppressed

When ratelimit.c is more than 100, make noise and echo in sound card, is a bug of alsa with pulseaudio in ALC888, but, Skype 2.1 NOT produce this bug, i don't know the diff in the source of Skype 2.2 and 2.1
Comment by synflag (synflag) - Thursday, 21 April 2011, 12:48 GMT
Fixed 21 april:

Steps:

Recompile a kernel without HPET, use tsc sourceclock, and tsched=0 in pulseaudio, and others changes in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf, is a bug in alsa snd_hda_intel that exploit with pulse audio timer and buggy hpet2 of kernel over AMD/ATI chipsets.
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Monday, 13 June 2011, 10:25 GMT
is this still an issue with multilib/skype 2.2.0.35-1?

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