[pulseaudio-discuss] Crackling only in one situations

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 29.11.08 23:57, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek (jakub.rusinek at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I find PulseAudio great because of smaller footprint than ESD had and
> because of the features and stability, but one thing makes me nervous.
> 
> When I'm running Workaholic (http://mundogeek.net/workaholic/), sound in
> PA becomes crackled. When I shutdown Workaholic - it backs to normal.
> 
> It's very strange.
> 
> I'm running pulseaudio-0.9.12 on openSUSE 11.0 (GNOME and stuff from
> Factory, kernel from 11.0).
> 
> My configs: http://wklej.org/id/23046/
> 
> I tried editing configs but it changed nothing.
> 
> I've got crackling from first startup of PA 0.9.12. Earlier PA I used
> (default in 11.0) was working well.

Try running "pulseaudio -vvvv" in a terminal. It might explain what is
going on. (do a pulseaudio -k first to stop a running instance first).

Some graphics drivers (nvidia closed source crap) break process
scheduling in some way whcih causes PA to miss its scheduling deadline
which results in drop-outs.

Lennart

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