-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've been running Debian full-time on my desktop for over a year now, with a combination of testing and unstable (mostly testing). At the moment I'm running 2.6.15, compiled with Debian's default config except for turning on a couple of things so I could use the atop monitor. I've used ALSA from the very beginning with my two SB Live! Value cards, and it works perfectly.
Well, it has, but in just the past week I've noticed very strange audio performance problems. If CPU usage spikes for a few seconds, the audio tends to skip (when I'm listening to XMMS, for example). This has *never* happened before. Another thing that happens is that if I'm watching a video, and the video player app freezes (which hasn't happened like this until now, either), the audio will loop over about a quarter-second's data until either it gets more audio to play, or the app that was playing it is killed. It sounds like the same kind of thing that happens if you're listening to something and the whole computer freezes, except the rest of the system is not frozen, and it can be stopped by killing the app. I looked through my apt-listchanges logs for anything ALSA-related, but I came up empty. I'll do some more digging and see if I can find any other audio-decoding libs that might have been upgraded in the timeframe, but I wondered if anyone else has experienced this too. I'm not sure if this is related, but at the same time, I've noticed that some apps like amarok, Kaffeine with the Xine engine, and perhaps others, have been freezing up completely, usually while switching from one track or video to the next, or sometimes in the middle of a video. This behavior is also new. I realize that using testing, and especially unstable, results in strange problems like this now and then. But I would like to help solve it, especially if I'm not the only one experiencing it. So any advice or anecdotes would be appreciated. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEB9No5+GdyTDsrJsRAr1ZAKDXZvpm+TKN+Rf9apceeqRmHAogDACg7oYY PhPGM6MNQPTllFguSor4JCI= =JKlz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
