Venting about alsa

[Steven W. Orr]

This system is totally nuts. I'm sorry but this is just not acceptable. My
syslog is racking up 26/second of


Aug 25 14:10:13 saturn pulseaudio[12422]: module-alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up
to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write! Most
likely this is an ALSA driver bug. Please report this issue to the PulseAudio
developers.

[root at saturn log]# ls -l messages*
-rw------- 1 root root 428542439 Aug 25 14:15 messages
-rw------- 1 root root 156537537 Aug  2 04:49 messages-20090802
-rw------- 1 root root 232312245 Aug  9 04:55 messages-20090809
-rw------- 1 root root 570072183 Aug 16 05:14 messages-20090816
-rw------- 1 root root 507952759 Aug 23 05:12 messages-20090823
[root at saturn log]#

[root at saturn log]# grep -v 'but there was actually nothing' messages | wc
   8876  116027  815261
[root at saturn log]#

This hass been going on for so damned long and I just want it to stop. Is it
alsa, is it pulsaudio?

[root at saturn log]# ps  aux | grep pulse
steveo   12422  5.1  0.3  97164  3332 ?        Ssl  Aug24  89:28
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog

F10/KDE-4.2 I'm not running SE. I killed the pulseaudio process and now I see
this is syslog:


Aug 25 14:19:58 saturn pulseaudio[20422]: main.c: Called SUID root and
real-time and/or high-priority scheduling was requested in the configuration.
However, we lack the necessary privileges:
Aug 25 14:19:58 saturn pulseaudio[20422]: main.c: We are not in group
'pulse-rt', PolicyKit refuse to grant us the requested privileges and we have
no increase RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits.
Aug 25 14:19:58 saturn pulseaudio[20422]: main.c: For enabling
real-time/high-priority scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit
privileges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the
RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user.
Aug 25 14:19:59 saturn pulseaudio[20425]: alsa-util.c: Device front:0 doesn't
support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
Aug 25 14:19:59 saturn pulseaudio[20425]: alsa-util.c: Device front:0 doesn't
support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.

Is there a permission or group problem? Did I say this was nuts? Can something
be done? PLEASE?!!!

-- 
Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have  .0.
happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0
Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000
individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
steveo at syslang.net

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