Re: 2.6.3-rc1: snd_intel8x0 still too fast

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:22:25 +0200 (EET),
Meelis Roos wrote:
> 
> > > Today mplayer was OK when I tested, didn't retry KDE login. But the
> > > kernel is the same, I have not rebooted inbetween.
> >
> > weird...  cpufreq is running?
> 
> No, it's a desktop Celeron 900.
> 
> > > Did try twice:
> > >
> > > intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 50040 usecs
> > > intel8x0: clocking to 41146
> > >
> > > intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49395 usecs
> > > intel8x0: clocking to 41145
> >
> > and now you got the correct output?
> > if so, you can pass the value via ac97_clock option.
> 
> I did retest things more toroughly today after I booted up 2.6.3-rc2. I
> focused on testing KDE login since this is known to break. Startup
> scripts (discover) loaded also i810_audio, I unloaded it.
 
oh never load two these modules at the same time!
it can crash the system.
it must be a bug of i810_audio that can coexist with ALSA driver.

> Plain bootup gave
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
> intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49671 usecs
> intel8x0: clocking to 41136
> 
> and it did not work. Unloading and reloading snd-intel8x0 gave
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
> intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49281 usecs
> intel8x0: clocking to 41139
> 
> and it still did not work (way too fast, probably even more than twice).
> Now I tried
> modprobe snd-intel8x0 ac97_clock=41140
> It loads silently but still does not work.
> 
> Now I started to suspect that loading i810_audio might screw things up.
> Removed the module and rebooted, no i810_audio loaded, still the same.
> 
> Reproduced the problem with mplayer too. It depends on the input file
> bitrate!
> 
> mplayer /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav
> gives the same very fast sound since it's a 22 KHz mono sample.
> 
> mplayer -srate 48000 /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav
> works fine. Same applies to all files.

then VRA of ac97 seems not working correctly.
check /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/* files for each case whether the
DAC rate is set correctly.  (it must be tuned with the detected ac97
clock, i.e. rate * clock / 48000).


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Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>		ALSA Developer - www.alsa-project.org