<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Bill Kendrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nbs@sonic.net">nbs@sonic.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 12:39:17PM -0400, Jack Smith wrote:<br>
> It's started locking up on me while playing an anime. Anyone having this<br>
> trouble?<br>
<br>
I've had probs recently where it'll start playing, and then stop immediately.<br>
(As though it's paused.)<br>
<br>
If I hit space a few times, or left/right to skip around, it usually<br>
picks up, but often not for long.<br>
<br>
<br>
Possibly related, I have various other apps hang and freeze on exit,<br>
Firefox close (but not actually quit, so when I go to open a new window<br>
it tells me "firefox is still running, but not responding", and I have to<br>
open up a terminal and issue a "killall firefox"), usually after playing<br>
a Flash video (e.g., YouTube).<br>
<br>
I'm thinking PulseAudio or someone in there is breaking things pretty<br>
badly. >:^(<br>
<br>
-bill!<br></blockquote></div><br>Yup, exactly my symptoms, and my log shows lots of PulseAudio activity at the same time and complaints about a possible driver bug.<br><br>Aug 7 19:10:34 natsumi pulseaudio[2850]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 18446744073709539136 bytes (384307168137 ms).<br>
Aug 7 19:10:34 natsumi pulseaudio[2850]: alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_intel8x0'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.<br><br>pulseaudio[2850]: alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write!<br>
Aug 7 21:04:43 natsumi pulseaudio[2850]: alsa-sink.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_intel8x0'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.<br>Aug 7 21:04:43 natsumi pulseaudio[2850]: alsa-sink.c: We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail.<br>
<br>Guess I have to research how to talk to the ALSA developers.<br><br>-- <br>Jack Smith<br><br>English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.<br>