Putting highres=off on the GRUB kernel command line corrupts the audio on the Toshiba NB305. I have posted these same comments to other bug reports about sound and suspend/reawaken problems on the NB305. I am hoping that it will stimulate a resolution of the sleep/suspend/reawaken problem without turning off the highres timers. *********************** The easiest test to see if the audio is working on the Toshiba NB305 is to go to preferences-> sound and make sure the ubuntu sound theme is selected. Then open a terminal window (accessories->terminal) and when the CLI appears, press and hold the back arrow. You will get a system "bong or ping" indicating an incorrect key entry) just hold it down and after 10 to 20 bongs the sound will distort. It requires 6 seconds before you can get normal sound again. Other programs that stress the sound system will cause this sudden distortion.
The problem can be avoided for many programs by removing pulseaudio (apt-get remove pulseaudio) and reboot. You will lose the volume control applet (and other pulseaudio stuff) but you can use alsamixer to set volumes. Like I said... it is hardly a solution.... but many programs will still work perfectly without pulseaudio installed. It appears that pulseaudio requires the kernel highres timers in order to work reliably. When you deactivate the timers by putting highres=off on the GRUB kernel command line, it dooms pulseaudio. Or at least this has been my experience. I tried it with a completely clean install, with and without the "nohz=off highres=off". Without those parameters the sound is just fine. What is really required is a patch to make the machine suspend and reawaken properly when the lid is closed... *without* ... deactivating the highres timers. As always... take anything I say with a grain of salt. It is just my interpretation of what I observe. -- wakeup from sleep fails on toshiba nb305 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/508516 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Registry Administrators, which is the registrant for Fedora. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~registry Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~registry More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
