I don't think it's using the modem... I do hear some sound; it just cuts out
if I select pulseaudio or ALSA. OSS works fine. Killing pulseaudio forces me
to use ALSA or OSS... And since pulseaudio dies when ALSA hiccups, I think
ALSA is the culprit. I thought I had the latest drivers and libraries, but
I'll look into it.
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:29 PM, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kristin Low wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was hoping someone could help me solve my ALSA problems, as I'm still
>> somewhat new to Linux. I'm running Ubuntu Hardy Heron and haven't changed
>> any config files however ALSA does not work properly and I assume that
>> because of this, Pulseaudio doesn't work either since the problems come
>> hand-in-hand. Playing a song, I can hear the song for a random length of
>> time and then it cuts out. If I run VLC from a terminal, it claims "alsa
>> output error: write error (broken pipe)" as the cause and continues to write
>> that over the screen until I force VLC to quit. If I restart the song again,
>> the same thing occurs. When I login, only part of the login sounds play and
>> are cut just the same as any songs or audio files I try. It seems like my
>> sound card is detected fine, and OSS works. It's on a Toshiba Satellite a70.
>> Please help! I've never had ALSA working properly.
>>
>>
>> Below I've listed the alsa-info.txt as per
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kristin
>>
>> This is kind of a wild question, but are you using the modem while trying
> to play sound? They have the same IRQ and there might be a conflict. If
> you aren't using the modem is there a way to disable it using a jumper on
> the board?
>
> What happens if you disable pulseaudio completely and try playing sound?
> After you have disabled pulseaudio, try aplay -D plughw:0,0 some.wav
> . If this works, it is pulseaudio causing the problem.
>
> This comes off the Frinika page http://frinika.sourceforge.net/ It should
> give your sound
> higher priority. I don't know that it will work, but it might help.
>
> ...
>
>
> Frinika with realtime priority using Ubuntu Linux (Feisty)
> <http://frinika.sourceforge.net/?p=12>
>
> May 15th, 2007
>
> Modify:
>
> /etc/security/limits.conf:
>
> @audio - rtprio 90
> @audio - nice -5
> @audio - memlock 50000
> And make your user member of the audio group.
>
> You will then experience very stable sound and be able to use low
> latencies!
>
> ...
>
> You could also download and install the latest alsa library and drivers
>
> http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.17rc2_v1.0.17rc3
>
> If nothing above helps, try posting on the alsa-devel list. There might be
> something wrong with the driver. The developers will have a better idea of
> that than me.
>
>
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