[pulseaudio-discuss] problem with ca0106

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Miguel Beltran R. at 07/09/09 07:03 did gyre and gimble:
> Hi list
> 
> I have a sound card ca0106 and have problem with gnome 2.26.3 from 
> gnomeslackbuild.org <http://gnomeslackbuild.org>, package version 
> pulseaudio-0.9.15-x86_64-6gsb
>

If you have a problem with a specific card then there are essentially 
two possibilities:

1) The alsa level driver sis providing incorrect timing information to 
PulseAudio and as a result messes it up. You can work around this to a 
degree by passing tsched=0 to module-hal-detect (it's an ugly hack and 
the correct fix is to correct the bugs in the alsa driver).
2) The mixer path is not correctly interpreted in pulseaudio. A more 
flexible mixer logic has been introduced in pulseaudio 0.9.16 to address 
this.

Overall, without seeing any actual debug info about the problem you're 
having, I'd guess at 1.

> I already read 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de/msg04070.html, 
> so what is the situation? exists some path for this bug? or the problem 
> is what gnomeslackbuild.org <http://gnomeslackbuild.org> include a patch?

Well, those patches on that branch are recommended to distro packagers, 
so regardless if it fixes this bug, if someone is shipping 0.9.15 then 
they should be applied.

Col


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