Re: Fwd: [Alsa-user] VIA VT8235 (ALC201) problems

[Joachim Blaabjerg <styx@gentoo.org>]

Sorry for being unresponsive about this lately.

On Tuesday 22 October 2002 12:51, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Ehm, could you elaborate the symptom?

Daniel S. Tarbuck described it very well:

> The modules load and the mixer seems to work, but whenever I try to play
> some audio, it replays the same bit of audio 13 or 14 times before
> moving on to the next bit.  This takes about 10 seconds, so I sound that
> loops every 2/3 seconds for 14 loops and then moves on to the next bit
> of sound (looping 14 times).
> 
> This appears to be a timing issue of some sort.  When using mpg321,
> after I stop the player, it reports that it has been playing for less
> time than it has (roughly 1/14th of the actual time).

Observing the ALSA-user mailing list lately, I see that four or five other 
people are having the same problem with this driver.

> Also, please check whether the count in /proc/interrupts increases
> during playback.  If not, it's usually a hardware configuration
> problem.  if it increases, most likely a driver bug.

Well, in my case it doesn't. I'm 99% sure there are no IRQ conflicts, and I 
can't see anything else that could be wrong.

I'd gladly give you root access to my machine if that would help you 
diagnose/fix the problem.

Best Regards,


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