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Sounds like an ALSA-mixer plugin problem to me. The theory goes that
when multiple attempts to output sound to an ALSA sound card are made
at the same time, ALSA is supposed to recognize whether or not the
sound card can mix the streams in hardware, and if not, ALSA is
supposed to introduce its own software stream mixer automatically. But
I have multiple reports that it often just doesn't happen. And because
audio applications don't always terminate their output cleanly,
multiple sequential attempts at playing a track can be interpreted as
being quasi-simultaneous; and if the mixing ability doesn't work, you
get what you're seeing, something crashes in ALSA and sound dies on the
box.<br>
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I fixed the below symptoms on two boxes of mine, using <a
href="http://linuxlive.joshuacorps.org/?p=13">alphanumeric sound card
names</a> plus using PulseAudio to handle the multistream issue, as an
entryway to ALSA. I have Jack involved too, which means I am using
App-->ALSA-->Jack-->ALSA for all non-live-music sound (<a
href="http://linuxlive.joshuacorps.org/?p=57">see here</a>). If you
don't need Jack, I suspect that if you convert any vanilla distro which
uses Pulse by default to use alphanumeric names, and then make sure
that all of your audio apps go to Pulse (except Audacious, that's still
a problem apparently) using an .asoundrc (see attached), you should be
fine. Otherwise, I would use the AAJA method linked above.<br>
<br>
J.E.B.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hello everyone,
I'm using Debian Lenny and since I exchanged my mainboard and relating
components some time ago I encounter the following problem:
When I listening to some music (using Amarok-1.4.10 or herrie) playback stops
somewhere at a radnom time, when maybe 3-5 (differs randomly) tracks have
been played. herrie can't be terminated in regular way after a playback-stop,
using Amarok I can simply restart playback and everything is alright.
I think this is a problem concerning ALSA, because if it happens using herrie,
everything will be alright after running 'alsaconf'.
Does anyone have a hunch, whtat's wrong here and how to fix it?
Thank you. Regards
->Lukas
Some information:
'lsmod | grep snd' gives:
snd_intel8x0 26268 3
snd_ac97_codec 88452 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 1728 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 32800 0
snd_mixer_oss 12320 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 62660 4 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 2660 0
snd_seq_oss 24992 0
snd_seq_midi 5728 0
snd_rawmidi 18496 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6432 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 41456 6
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 17800 3 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 6380 5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 45636 14
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 6368 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7816 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
'cat /proc/asound/cards':
0 [ICH5 ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH5
Intel ICH5 with ALC850 at irq 17
'cat /proc/asound/version':
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.16.
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