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From: Baek Chang <baeksan@ccrma.stanford.edu>
Subject: snd_pcm_avail_update() returning large values
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 17:37:56 -0700
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Hi,

Occasionally, when using pulseaudio I see the following message:

snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large.

This seems to be an issue with the ALSA driver itself.  My question is how
does snd_pcm_avail_update(), get updated? It uses hw buffer positions
correct?  Is there an example driver that implements snd_pcm_avail_update()
correctly and updates buffer positions correctly?

Thanks
Baek