Neil Bird wrote:
OK, I've had a google, and a bit of tinkering with config. files,
and I'm not really getting anywhere. PA was working OK for me in
Fedora 8, but ever since I upgraded F8 to F10, it's been a right PITA.
It'll either continually stutter (e.g., when playing music often 1-2
times each track) or hiccough and crash under CPU load (firefox
loading can kill it, for example).
Indeed, with my wife playing 'listen', CPU usage is PA itself is
some ~20% or more. I have tried the 'tsched=0' hack, but that doesn't
seem to change anything (yes, I restarted PA).
I've seen PA quit itself due to "excessive CPU usage" (I've taken to
running it in an xterm to see when it's gone/what errors it's
reporting). I tried the max cpu flag I found in the PA daemon conf.
file, but all *that* did was just report 'Killed' when it died.
It just seems deeply unreliable. I can fairly reliably stuff it by
running realplay (listening to streamed radio) under padsp, and then
launching mplayer.
The only odd thing I see is some message about the ALSA and/or the
kernel reporting a range of 22.0 to 22.0 db or something, "indicating
a bug in the kernel driver".
So, what to try? Most googles of my symptoms lead to people who've
had enough and removed it. I did even see one report trying to blame
nVidia's drivers (which, regardless of veracity, is no excuse given
that it was OK before).
I'd *rather* get to the bottom of the problem(s), even if it's
raising bug reports and patching for now, but I'm really just fed up
with the thing now. If I can't get it going within a week, next
weekend it's off the machine for good.
I'm getting the stuttering, static, and crashes too, and periodically
something will happen with pulseaudio that results in thousands (at
least) of identical error messages appearing in /var/log/messages. I
looked up the error (I can't remember what it is off-hand) and the
pulseaudio guys are saying that it's a bug in alsa, and the alsa guys
seem to be working on a bug directly related to that error, but the
symptoms of the bug they're fixing don't match what I'm seeing with pulse...
Frankly, I don't care where the hell the problem is, I just want my
audio working clearly and properly. I'll post the error message when I
get a chance, but even if alsa is the problem it doesn't explain why
I've seen pulseaudio die between the time I start it in a terminal
window and the time Banshee finishes loading so I can actually play some
audio.
Raymond
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