https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471265 User andrescimmarusti@yahoo.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471265#c9 Andres Cimmarusti <andrescimmarusti@yahoo.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|andrescimmarusti@yahoo.com | --- Comment #9 from Andres Cimmarusti <andrescimmarusti@yahoo.com> 2009-03-02 08:55:22 MST --- I tried KDE4.1 and got rid off PulseAudio completely, but sometimes the starting sound (when booting up) didn't sound at all, or got cut off abruptly. The sound when logging off sometimes did not play and a message appeared: that there was something wrong with ATI IXP rev2 with unknown codec device... I admit that I let the problem rest for a while. Mainly because I had work to do!. But I have come back to it. I'm once again running GNOME with full pulseaudio support. I think I have a better idea of what is going on. I did what you suggested. I killed pulseaudio and: $ killall -9 pulseaudio $ aplay -Dplug -vv /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav ALSA lib pcm.c:6814:(snd_pcm_slave_conf) missing field pcm aplay: main:590: audio open error: Invalid argument $ aplay -Dplug:dmix -vv /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo Plug PCM: Rate conversion PCM (48000, sformat=S32_LE) Its setup is: stream : PLAYBACK access : RW_INTERLEAVED format : S16_LE subformat : STD channels : 2 rate : 44100 exact rate : 44100 (44100/1) msbits : 16 buffer_size : 7526 period_size : 940 period_time : 21333 tstamp_mode : NONE period_step : 1 avail_min : 940 period_event : 0 start_threshold : 7526 stop_threshold : 7526 silence_threshold: 0 silence_size : 0 boundary : 986447872 Slave: Direct Stream Mixing PCM Its setup is: stream : PLAYBACK access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED format : S32_LE subformat : STD channels : 2 rate : 48000 exact rate : 48000 (48000/1) msbits : 32 buffer_size : 8192 period_size : 1024 period_time : 21333 tstamp_mode : NONE period_step : 1 avail_min : 1024 period_event : 0 start_threshold : 8192 stop_threshold : 8192 silence_threshold: 0 silence_size : 0 boundary : 1073741824 Hardware PCM card 0 'ATI IXP' device 0 subdevice 0 Its setup is: stream : PLAYBACK access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED format : S32_LE subformat : STD channels : 2 rate : 48000 exact rate : 48000 (48000/1) msbits : 32 buffer_size : 8192 period_size : 1024 period_time : 21333 tstamp_mode : ENABLE period_step : 1 avail_min : 1024 period_event : 0 start_threshold : 1 stop_threshold : 1073741824 silence_threshold: 0 silence_size : 1073741824 boundary : 1073741824 (the playback was flawless for this one) I ran it in two terminals and they worked well without any problems nor interference. I've been doing some searching and in the forums and in pulseaudio's website I came across the command: $ grep -i pulse /var/log/messages Mar 1 00:54:17 suse-linux pulseaudio[8998]: main.c: High-priority scheduling enabled in configuration but not allowed by policy. Mar 1 00:54:17 suse-linux pulseaudio[8998]: core-util.c: setpriority(): Permission denied Mar 1 00:54:17 suse-linux pulseaudio[8998]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.Mar 1 01:47:18 suse-linux pulseaudio[3452]: module-alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 36.75 ms Mar 1 01:52:08 suse-linux pulseaudio[3452]: module-alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 34.00 ms Mar 1 01:54:47 suse-linux pulseaudio[3452]: module-alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 68.00 ms Mar 1 02:13:09 suse-linux pulseaudio[3452]: module-alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 136.00 ms Mar 1 02:24:58 suse-linux pulseaudio[3452]: module-alsa-source.c: Your kernel driver is broken: it reports a volume range from 18.00 dB to 18.00 dB which makes no sense. (this is only a fraction of the output, however, the rest seem ok and it loops over and over) What concerns me is the last line. In the pulseaudio website they claim that there are some alsa drivers that have problems. Could atiixp be one? or perhaps just a bit, regarding the volume, or so it would seem. Andres -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.