On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 11:39 -0700, T.P. Reitzel wrote: > Lee - > > I don't know if I can explain it much better, but here's another > attempt. ANY sound just echoes for several seconds almost like the > problem is due to conflicting interrupts. If I play a brief tone (< 1 > sec.), the tone will just echo for several seconds. Imagine listening to > a longer segment of audio in this manner. The result is just a > continuous jumble of echoes. Other users of similar hardware must be > experiencing the same problem. I haven't done ANYTHING other than > upgrade from the 2.6.16.1 kernel to the 2.6.17 kernel with a slightly > newer (Hg) version of ALSA. Remember, this problem has been worsening > throughout the life cyle of the 2.6.16.x kernels. HTH
I think you are hitting a known bug that's caused not by ALSA but by a buggy PCI quirk for VIA chipsets. It's a regression introduced during the 2.6.16.x series. It has been discussed on LKML and should be fixed in the first 2.6.17 stable release. Lee _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
