[linux-audio-user] Again on sudden and occasional Jack crackling sound

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 16:49 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 22:17 +0000, Salvatore Di Pietro wrote:
> 
> > Moreover, using jack_bufsize, or resizing buffer within Ardour, causes 
> > complete muting of output sound (bit not clients death, as it was 
> > before), until I restart jack.
> > Notice that this "complete muting" only affects the output ports, i.e. I 
> > can continue recording with qarecord, or ardour, I just cannot hear (and 
> > monitor) anything anymore until I restart jack and its clients.
> 
> as far as we can tell, this is an ALSA (kernel) driver issue. it does
> not affect other backends, and does not affect (we think) every ALSA
> supported piece of h/w. it would be nice for it to be either fixed or at
> least tracked down conclusively.
> 

I suspect it's in the ALSA core (could be alsa-lib or in the kernel) as
it's been reported with everything from ice1712 to emu10k1 to RME
hardware to cheap onboard stuff.

Lee