F10 Strange Audio Errors

[Sean Bruno]

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

[oleksandr korneta]

on 12/25/2008 08:26 PM Sean Bruno 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'm having the same in F10. My log is full of those messages, I would
even say there is nothing in it except these errors, because it keeps
popping up every 2 minutes even if there is no program producing sound.
And when something is actually playing sound  it is skipping like crazy 
and drives me nuts. I'd like to keep using pulseaudio, because some of 
my software is having errors without it, but this is unbearable. And the 
ticket has been there for more than a month 
http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/420 but I've seen no response from 
developers so far, whether it is even pulseaudio bug (do I remember 
something about skipping-free sound in release notes?) or alsa bug.



-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

I'm running F9 x86_64 and F10 i386 on x86_64 hardware, should this matter.

/The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./

[oleksandr korneta]

on 12/26/2008 11:32 AM Sean Bruno wrote:
>  On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 18:52 -0800, Peter Langfelder wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Sean Bruno <sean.bruno(a)dsl-only.net&gt; 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
> >
>  I assume that requires more than just stopping the pulse audio demon?
>   
I did not want to test my luck so removed everything related to 
pulseaudio in addition, except

$ rpm -qa | grep pulse
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.13-6.fc10.i386
pulseaudio-core-libs-0.9.13-6.fc10.i386
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.13-6.fc10.i386
pulseaudio-libs-devel-0.9.13-6.fc10.i386
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.13-6.fc10.i386
pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf-0.9.13-6.fc10.i386


because those serve as dependencies for something else I have installed 
and want to keep.

it's a shame, since I had no luck with pulseaudio since F8 and really 
was hoping to keep it in F10 finally.

-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

I'm running F9 x86_64 and F10 i386 on x86_64 hardware, should this matter.

/The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./

[Nigel Henry]

On Friday 26 December 2008 18:43, Peter Langfelder wrote:
>  On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Sean Bruno
> <sean.bruno(a)dsl-only.net&gt; wrote:
>  >> I used to experience similar skipping and hesitating from Amarok
>  >> 1.4... until I removed PulseAudio. Now amarok plays smoothly.
>  >>
>  >> Peter
>  >
>  > I assume that requires more than just stopping the pulse audio demon?
>  >
>  > Sean
>
>  I removed pulse audio using the standard package kit add/remove
>  software and I think I restarted the system. I seem to vaguely
>  remember that just stopping the pulse audio daemon wasn't enough, but
>  I may be wrong on this.
>
>  Peter 
I disabled it on F8, and F9, by a, yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio . If you 
are using KDE, this will also remove the kde-settings-pulseaudio package. I f 
you play games that use SDL, add this line below to /home/user/.bashrc, which 
will remove the hack that SDL programs needed to use pulseaudio.

unset SDL_AUDIODRIVER

By doing the above, you should now be in the happy situation of now having 
your audio apps using alsa directly again.

Nigel.

btw. No disrespect to Lennart Poetering, author of Pulseaudio. Some folks love 
it, others just disable it, as they have problems with it. All about having 
the freedom to choose I suppose.

[Peter Langfelder]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Sean Bruno <sean.bruno(a)dsl-only.net&gt; wrote:

> > I used to experience similar skipping and hesitating from Amarok
> > 1.4... until I removed PulseAudio. Now amarok plays smoothly.
> >
> > Peter
> >
>  I assume that requires more than just stopping the pulse audio demon?
>
>  Sean
>  
I removed pulse audio using the standard package kit add/remove
software and I think I restarted the system. I seem to vaguely
remember that just stopping the pulse audio daemon wasn't enough, but
I may be wrong on this.

Peter

[Sean Bruno]

On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 18:52 -0800, Peter Langfelder wrote:
>  On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Sean Bruno
> <sean.bruno(a)dsl-only.net&gt; 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
>   
I assume that requires more than just stopping the pulse audio demon?

Sean

[Peter Langfelder]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Sean Bruno <sean.bruno(a)dsl-only.net&gt; 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