Doesn't happen in earlier versions of ubuntu that don't use pulse...

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:27 PM, berend <ber...@pobox.com> wrote:

> I can confirm this is not a bug with pulseaudio. When I route the audio
> to my wireless audio card, no stutters at all. It's purely related to
> the intel hda driver.
>
> Here my two audio cards:
>
> # aplay -l
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> Home directory /home/berend not ours.
> card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: CONEXANT Analog [CONEXANT Analog]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 1: Headset [Logitech Wireless Headset], device 0: USB Audio [USB
> Audio]
>   Subdevices: 0/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>
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>
> Title:
>   periodic audio skips with Intel HDA
>
> Status in PulseAudio sound server:
>   Confirmed
> Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   When running PulseAudio, if I'm playing music via any source (Exaile,
> Totem,
>   Flash in Firefox or Chromium, VLC, etc.) every few minutes the audio
> will skip
>   once or twice.  top doesn't show any process eating CPU any more when it
>   happens.  dmesg doesn't show anything.  Nothing else seems to be
> affected.  It
>   doesn't seem to happen regularly.
>
>   I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 from scratch (with pulseaudio
> 1:1.1-0ubuntu15),
>   but the same thing happened in 10.04 on the same hardware.  Uninstalling
> the
>   PulseAudio packages and going back to ALSA gives me no issues
> whatsoever, which
>   is how I know the issue is with PulseAudio.  I'm using my onboard audio
> device:
>
>   $ lspci | grep Audio
>   00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia
> (Intel
>   HDA)
>
>   Following mailing list instructions, pulseaudio -vvvv --log-time shows
> during a
>   skip:
>
>   ( 684.030|   5.000) I: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Underrun!
>   ( 684.030|   0.000) I: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Increasing minimal
> latency to
>   26.00 ms
>   ( 684.030|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Latency set to 26.00ms
>   ( 684.030|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: hwbuf_unused=60952
>   ( 684.030|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: setting avail_min=15944
>   ( 684.030|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Latency set to 26.00ms
>   ( 684.030|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: hwbuf_unused=60952
>   ( 684.030|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: setting avail_min=15944
>   ( 684.031|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] protocol-native.c: Underrun on 'ALSA
>   Playback', 0 bytes in queue.
>   ( 684.036|   0.004) D: [alsa-sink] protocol-native.c: Requesting rewind
> due to
>   end of underrun.
>   ( 684.036|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Requested to rewind 10940
>   bytes.
>   ( 684.036|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Limited to 3320 bytes.
>   ( 684.036|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: before: 830
>   ( 684.036|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: after: 830
>   ( 684.036|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Rewound 3320 bytes.
>   ( 684.036|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] sink.c: Processing rewind...
>   ( 684.036|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] sink.c: latency = 1337
>   ( 684.036|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] sink-input.c: Have to rewind 3320
> bytes on
>   render memblockq.
>   ( 684.036|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] source.c: Processing rewind...
>   ( 696.234|  12.197) I: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Underrun!
>   ( 696.234|   0.000) I: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup
> watermark to
>   15.99 ms
>   ( 702.033|   5.799) I: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Underrun!
>   ( 702.033|   0.000) I: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Increasing minimal
> latency to
>   36.00 ms
>   ( 702.033|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Latency set to 36.00ms
>   ( 702.033|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: hwbuf_unused=59188
>   ( 702.033|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: setting avail_min=15680
>   ( 702.033|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Latency set to 36.00ms
>   ( 702.034|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: hwbuf_unused=59188
>   ( 702.034|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: setting avail_min=15680
>   ( 702.034|   0.000) D: [alsa-sink] protocol-native.c: Underrun on 'ALSA
>   Playback', 0 bytes in queue.
>
>   ...and it goes on.
>
>   The "Underrun!" messages alone happened a few times before, but it
>   didn't skip.
>
>   I'd like to use PulseAudio, but it's pretty annoying having audio skip
> all the
>   time.
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
>   Package: pulseaudio 1:1.1-0ubuntu15
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
>   Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
>   NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>   AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
>   ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
>   Architecture: amd64
>   AudioDevicesInUse:
>    USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
>    /dev/snd/controlC0:  toxite     2136 F.... pulseaudio
>    /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p:   toxite     2136 F...m pulseaudio
>   Card0.Amixer.info:
>    Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xfe024000 irq 16'
>      Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC889'
>      Components : 'HDA:10ec0889,1458a102,00100004'
>      Controls      : 48
>      Simple ctrls  : 22
>   Date: Tue May  8 21:45:17 2012
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64
> (20120425)
>   ProcEnviron:
>    TERM=xterm
>    PATH=(custom, user)
>    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   SourcePackage: pulseaudio
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>   dmi.bios.date: 12/03/2009
>   dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
>   dmi.bios.version: F2
>   dmi.board.name: GA-790FXTA-UD5
>   dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
>   dmi.board.version: x.x
>   dmi.chassis.type: 3
>   dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
>   dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF2:bd12/03/2009:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnGA-790FXTA-UD5:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-790FXTA-UD5:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
>   dmi.product.name: GA-790FXTA-UD5
>   dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
>
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  periodic audio skips with Intel HDA

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