From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Julian Bradfield <jalsa-devel@jcbradfield.org>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: bug in playing 6-channel sound
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 12:21:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hef34zss1.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23837.55548.631053.741245@vis.stevens-bradfield.com>
On Thu, 04 Jul 2019 12:46:20 +0200,
Julian Bradfield wrote:
>
> Some five years ago, the following post
>
> https://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2014-February/072265.html
>
> reported a failure to play six-channel sound, that could be worked
> around by setting the prealloc value for the device to various values
> *other than* the default 64.
>
> I have just run into this playing a movie from my laptop (Thinkpad
> Yoga X1, Intel HDA PCH sound card outputting through HDMI) running
> Xubuntu 18.04, up to date as at the time of posting.
>
> I see exactly the same problem as in that post, and the same
> workaround works for me - I tried prealloc values 63,65,32,128, and
> any of them is ok.
>
> I'm a bit baffled that such a problem has survived for several years.
Maybe just because most distros use the larger preallocation size via
kconfig option since long time ago. It's kept to 64 as default in the
source tree just for a historical reason.
Takashi
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2019-07-04 10:46 bug in playing 6-channel sound Julian Bradfield
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