[ALSA - driver 0001302]: Clicking noise when using kphone with the ALSA AD1816A sound driver

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<https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1302> 
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Reported By:                tek01
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    ALSA - driver
Issue ID:                   1302
Category:                   ISA - ad1816a
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   tweak
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
Distribution:               Debian Sarge
Kernel Version:             vanilla 2.6.11.12, vanilla 2.6.10, Debians 2.6.8-2
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Date Submitted:             08-02-2005 17:29 CEST
Last Modified:              11-07-2005 13:17 CET
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Summary:                    Clicking noise when using kphone with the ALSA
AD1816A sound driver
Description: 
Using kphone (VoIP softphone) with the ALSA native API and the AD1816A
sound driver a continuous clicking noise is heard approximately 3 times
per second. Using the OSS AD1816 with kphone(OSS API) sound driver on the
same system and kernel audio is crystal clear. Also audio latency is much
higher (0.3-0.5s guessed) compared to the OSS AD1816 (<0.1s, also guessed)
sound driver.
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Relationships       ID      Summary
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related to          0001300 modprobe goes into D-state when inserti...
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 rlrevell - 10-31-05 17:48 
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This sounds like a bug in kphone's ALSA support and not in the ALSA driver.
 It's probably using a different buffer size for ALSA vs. OSS.

Anyway please test this with the latest ALSA release.

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 tek01 - 11-07-05 13:17 
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I did some tests last weekend using Linux 2.6.14 and the in kernel ALSA,
ALSA 1.0.10rc2 and CVS from last Friday.
The ALSA version does not matter, however enabling preemption seems to
make the problem worse, whereas putting some load on the CPU (f.e.
compiling a kernel) with preemption disabled seems to almost cure the
problem.

I removed the sound card from my main test box, an AMD K7@800MHz and
plugged it into an old Pentium 133 box running a Debian 2.6.8 kernel. The
card is working fine in this box, however audio latency is still somewhat
higher than with the OSS driver, but within acceptable limits.

Issue History
Date Modified  Username       Field                    Change              
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08-02-05 17:29 tek01          New Issue                                    
08-02-05 17:29 tek01          Distribution              => Debian Sarge    
08-02-05 17:29 tek01          Kernel Version            => vanilla 2.6.11.12,
vanilla 2.6.10, Debians 2.6.8-2
08-02-05 18:27 Adrian Bunk    Issue Monitored: Adrian Bunk                    
08-03-05 10:11 perex          Relationship added       related to 0001300  
08-03-05 10:20 perex          Note Added: 0005613                          
08-03-05 12:09 tiwai          Note Added: 0005618                          
08-03-05 12:10 tiwai          Note Added: 0005619                          
10-31-05 17:48 rlrevell       Note Added: 0006588                          
11-07-05 13:17 tek01          Note Added: 0006614                          
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