From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761479AbZFKA6v (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:58:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755530AbZFKA6o (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:58:44 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:35020 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756995AbZFKA6o (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:58:44 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:58:45 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Sven =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6hler?= Cc: David Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel Subject: Re: sound skipping regression introduced in 2.6.30-rc8 In-Reply-To: <4A300B85.2010106@gmail.com> References: <20090610.112804.193703669.davem@davemloft.net> <4A300B85.2010106@gmail.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.12.0 (Your Wildest Dreams) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.3 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:37:41 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote: > > 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. Which hardware? > Can somebody point out, how I can set this xrun_debug thing or can > somebody provide a patch that reverts the change? Did you read my reply to David? Takashi