2009/1/30 Hugh Caley <hughc@xxxxxxxxx>: > In the Gnome Sound Preferences control panel, with Music and Movices Sound > Playback set to SiS S17012 ... (OSS) the sounds in Rhythmbox is entirely > stable, even with the Firefox flash plugin bug nearly pegging my cpu. > > Setting Sound Playback to Alsa or Pulse Audio brings back the sound problems > immediately. It makes me wonder if this is really a hardware driver problem > ... > > Hugh > > Hugh Caley wrote: >> >> Ah, OK, I've also had this problem since F9. I'd assumed it was general >> pulse audio problems, glad to know it's actually specific to my hardware >> (seriously). >> >> The information is much appreciated. >> >> Hugh >>> >>> Welcome on the band of snd_intel8x0 guys.!!! >>> I have your hardware and same problems. Many bugs related, it seems >>> connected to incorrect time scheduling of kernel and related drivers >>> I had these problems since end of F9, switched to F10 but no real >>> improvements (i.e. if I run Rhythmbox and I listen to a radio stream I >>> note many breaks and buffer becomes empty) >>> Try pulseaudio -k then pulseaudio -vv in a terminal and you will see >>> many interesting warnings (rewinds and so on). >>> Now some improvements with alsa-lib-0.19 but I am running F11, I am >>> waiting for 29 series kernel tha unfortunately don't boot at the >>> moment on my hardware >>> Have a look to: >>> Bug 462026 - music file play -> sound sparks. >>> Bug 447594 - audio going through pulseaudio causes skipping, dies >>> Bug 446192 - horrible skipping audio >>> Bug 441087 - Sound/music playing faster than it should on intel chipset >>> >>> IMHO this bug has been underestimated for a long time >>> >>> -- >>> Antonio Montagnani >>> Skype : antoniomontag >>> >> > > > -- > Hugh Caley, Linux Administrator > Aldon Computer Group > 6001 Shellmound St. Suite 600 > Emeryville, CA 94608 > > (510) 285-8542 | hughc@xxxxxxxxx > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > I assume that developers have all elements to solve the problem with sound (Hugh, I have never tested OSS before, but I confirm your experience also in Rawhide). This bug has been living for too long.....at the very beginning I thought that was my hardware's fault, then many others joined me!! but no final solution until now -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines