From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760664AbZFJTkO (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:40:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754741AbZFJTkD (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:40:03 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:54808 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752594AbZFJTkC (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:40:02 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= Subject: Re: sound skipping regression introduced in 2.6.30-rc8 Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:37:41 +0200 Message-ID: <4A300B85.2010106@gmail.com> References: <20090610.112804.193703669.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org Cc: tiwai@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 77-20-200-126-dynip.superkabel.de User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090509) In-Reply-To: <20090610.112804.193703669.davem@davemloft.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Miller schrieb: > This change: > > commit c87d9732004b3f8fd82d729f12ccfb96c0df279e > Author: Takashi Iwai > Date: Wed May 27 10:53:33 2009 +0200 > > ALSA: Enable PCM hw_ptr_jiffies check only in xrun_debug mode > > The PCM hw_ptr jiffies check results sometimes in problems when a > hardware doesn't give smooth hw_ptr updates. So far, au88x0 and some > other drivers appear not working due to this strict check. > However, this check is a nice debug tool, and the capability should be > still kept. > > Hence, we disable this check now as default unless the user enables it > by setting the xrun_debug mode to the specific stream via a proc file. > > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai > > causes sound to skip while listing to MP3s using mplayer on > intel8x0 sound cards. I'm also affected by the issue described above. Can somebody point out, how I can set this xrun_debug thing or can somebody provide a patch that reverts the change? Regards, Sven