I have them with 4 fragments of 1 ms each. tsched=0,
device.buffering.buffer_size = 768, device.buffering.fragment_size =
128:
[11966.628405] ALSA: PCM: [Q] Lost interrupts?: (stream=0, delta=72,
new_hw_ptr=1177, old_hw_ptr=1105)
[11966.636364] ALSA: PCM: [Q] Lost interrupts?: (stream=0,
So I've done some research. This article describes the timer model and
how ALSA works in regards of periods/fragments and software/hardware
buffers: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/pulse-glitch-free.html
According to the article, PA works in two modes, with tsched=0 it's the
old IRQ-driven mode
I've tried 11, it's all spammed with messages to the level it gets
suppressed. I'll give it a try tomorrow then. I just don't know which
traces are relevant.
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0.5 ms is just what PA reports as the minimal latency. I don't need it
to be this small, I just don't want it to grow up to 100 ms without the
possibility to automatically drop it back to normal. I suppose it's not
possible to make PA work with fragments as ALSA does. As I understand
from the
Nothing seems to be printed with debug = 13:
[14559.554693] ALSA: PCM: [Q] Lost interrupts?: (stream=0, delta=161,
new_hw_ptr=702553, old_hw_ptr=702392)
[14564.895847] ALSA: PCM: [Q] Lost interrupts?: (stream=0, delta=161,
new_hw_ptr=937945, old_hw_ptr=937784)
[14565.941444] ALSA: PCM: [Q] Lost
Created attachment 115078
Kernel log
Here's the log. I've set tsched=0 and set 2 fragments, 2 ms each.
ALSA setup:
Apr 15 12:05:20 work pulseaudio[19799]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Soft volume
PCM
Apr 15 12:05:20 work pulseaudio[19799]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Control: PCM
Playback Volume
Still nothing:
[ 1469.264611] ALSA: PCM: [Q] Lost interrupts?: (stream=0, delta=161,
new_hw_ptr=4954969, old_hw_ptr=4954808)
[ 1469.340845] ALSA: PCM: [Q] Lost interrupts?: (stream=0, delta=169,
new_hw_ptr=4958329, old_hw_ptr=4958160)
[ 1470.946188] ALSA: PCM: [Q] Lost interrupts?: (stream=0,
Some more info. On my new laptop that also has a VIA sound chipset I
managed to greatly leverage the problem by installing the low-latency
Ubuntu kernel. I have Ubuntu MATE 14.04 on it so it was effortless.
Unfortunately, for (presumably) performance reasons it doesn't have
Updated my EFI, PA has the same settings:
[ 156.151092] ALSA: PCM: [Q] Lost interrupts?: (stream=0, delta=161,
new_hw_ptr=2517145, old_hw_ptr=2516984)
[ 156.151099] CPU: 0 PID: 2399 Comm: chrome Not tainted 3.19.0-pf2+ #1
[ 156.151100] Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product
ALSA setup:
Apr 14 13:51:06 work pulseaudio[11059]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Control: PCM
Playback Volume
Apr 14 13:51:06 work pulseaudio[11059]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: min_dB: -51
Apr 14 13:51:06 work pulseaudio[11059]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: max_dB: 0
Apr 14 13:51:06 work
enable_msi=0 doesn't change anything, still the same errors in the log.
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Title:
periodic audio skips with Intel HDA
Status in
Both commands produce underruns at large, audible and visible in the
output.
aplay -D hw:0,0 -v --buffer-time=4000 /tmp/fr025.wav
Playing WAVE '/tmp/fr025.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz,
Stereo
Hardware PCM card 0 'HDA Intel PCH' device 0 subdevice 0
Its setup is:
stream
When I start PA without tsched=0, it's ALSA setup is weird:
Apr 10 09:46:52 work pulseaudio[5161]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Control: PCM
Playback Volume
Apr 10 09:46:52 work pulseaudio[5161]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: min_dB: -51
Apr 10 09:46:52 work pulseaudio[5161]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c:
I've found that 16000 buffer time with 4000 period time doesn't underrun
while if I change the period time to 1000 or 2000 it underruns pretty
quickly. Lower buffer times underrun regardless of the period time it
seems.
16000/4000 shows these params:
aplay -D hw:0,0 -v --buffer-time=16000
I don't know if it's related but there's no error messages in dmesg if I
run PA without tsched=0. Though in this case skips are pretty audible
and the fragment size and their number aren't respected. Even worse,
latency grows over time with each skip and becomes unbearable. With
tsched=0 I can at
Also, when CPU is loaded for any reason I sometimes get this:
Apr 09 11:56:10 work pulseaudio[9718]: [alsa-sink-VT1708S Analog]
protocol-native.c: Implicit underrun of 'Playback'
Apr 09 11:56:10 work pulseaudio[9718]: [alsa-sink-VT1708S Analog] sink.c: Found
underrun 1380 bytes ago (1436 bytes
So I've bought a laptop with VIA sound as well and it also have
skips/stutters. I worked around it on both systems with these steps:
1) in /etc/pulse/default.pa added tsched=0:
load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0
2) to reduce latency set in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf:
default-fragments = 4
Created attachment 115003
Syslog with debug info
Here's my full syslog. First I started PA with:
default-fragments = 9
default-fragment-size-msec = 2
So the buffer was 800 frames, I couldn't get it to be 768 to have
exactly 16 ms latency. So it was 18 ms. I had no errors in dmesg while
using
Any ideas? The issue doesn't seem to resolve itself.
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Title:
periodic audio skips with Intel HDA
Status in PulseAudio sound
I was too fast coming to conclusions. ALSA plugin in LMMS still croaks
after PA worked several hours and gained latency of 36.00ms currently.
It may go down if I disconnect all its clients but I'm listening to
music all the day while working so it's not an option. Underruns happen
more often if
Ok, so 1024 overruns:
# aplay -D hw:0,0 -v --buffer-size=1024 /tmp/fr025.wav
Playing WAVE '/tmp/fr025.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz,
Stereo
Hardware PCM card 0 'HDA Intel PCH' device 0 subdevice 0
Its setup is:
stream : PLAYBACK
access : RW_INTERLEAVED
It turned out that garbled sound in LMMS with alsa output was because of
options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1 I used in module options. Tried
to fix this skips but it didn't work. After removing this option and
reloading the snd_hda_intel module, LMMS sounds much better with alsa
output but that
# aplay -D hw:0,0 -v --buffer-size=1500 /tmp/fr025.wav
Playing WAVE '/tmp/fr025.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz,
Stereo
Hardware PCM card 0 'HDA Intel PCH' device 0 subdevice 0
Its setup is:
stream : PLAYBACK
access : RW_INTERLEAVED
format : S16_LE
Created attachment 113112
High latency because of underruns
Nah, after all prealloc is just snake oil. I now have latency of 66 ms
which is unacceptable.
1 sink(s) available.
* index: 0
name: alsa_output.pci-_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
driver: module-alsa-card.c
flags:
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Product Name: P8H61-M LX2
You can also connect the onboard header to an S/PDIF input header
available on some graphics cards using an S/PDIF cable.
I don't have any digital audio equipment, only headphones with a regular
LMMS uses 64 frames, 1.5 ms but actually it has latency of 30-35 ms as
pacmd list-sink-inputs says. Setting its output to ALSA results in
extremely garbled sound, the only two options that actually produce
reasonable sound is PulseAudio (bad latency) and SDL. Actually, latency
isn't that bad if
Created attachment 113034
Underruns in the log
Same with VIA VT1708S. When I start pavucontrol it skips hardly and almost
stops sometimes. Because of that latency increases and may get up to 80 ms
which is unacceptable as PulseAudio's goal is to provide low latency audio. Of
course, it doesn't
Created attachment 113083
Underruns with prealloc=2048
I was able to leverage the Underrun! issue by setting prealloc to 2048
in kernel options (recompiled it). It can also be achieved via echo 2048
/proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/prealloc without recompiling. Wonder why
64 is still default in
Created attachment 113035
alsa-info
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Title:
periodic audio skips with Intel HDA
Status in PulseAudio sound server:
I don't know, it's what I set in the LMMS settings:
http://i.imgur.com/MRYJC4J.png
Anyway, no matter what I set in one particular program, other clients
should not skip because of that.
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To elaborate: I get garbled sound in LMMS when I use PulseAudio and set
LMMS to use ALSA so it's intercepted. Everything is fine if I use pure
ALSA everywhere but it's not the point here if we try to debug PA.
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Tried with a stereo 48k file (converted
/usr/share/sounds/KDE-Im-Cant-Connect.ogg to wav, tested with ffprobe that it's
truly 48k/2chan) and 64 bytes buffer size:
# aplay -D plughw:CARD=CA0106 -v --buffer-size=64 /tmp/kde.wav
Playing WAVE '/tmp/kde.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000
Interesting. I've converted that file to 44100 Hz and now it reveals a
strange behavior. When I play it with buffer size of 64 it sounds like
the pitch is lower than it should be (even if it doesn't overrun though
it does from time to time). When the size is 128 it sounds fine.
# aplay -D
(In reply to Raymond from comment #57)
Do surround21 , surround41 appear in
aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
default:CARD=CA0106
CA0106, CA0106
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=CA0106
CA0106,
This command doesn't work, it says aplay: set_params:1239: Channels
count non available. The -D default:CARD=CA0106 variant works and it
does not overrun. I only had overruns on recording (at least, explicit).
That said, I've made a huge improvement in my system, I compiled a pf-
kernel and set
# aplay -D plughw:CARD=CA0106 -v --buffer-size=128
/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little
Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
Plug PCM: Route conversion PCM (sformat=S16_LE)
Transformation table:
0 - 0
1 - 0
Its setup is:
BTW, my mic is connected to the blue jack, not the usual pink one. This
is the only configuration I've found to be working, others result in
noise or silence. The mic is a bit more quiet (not _almost silent_ as if
it's connected to a Line-In jack, just not comfortable enough) than it
was on the
(In reply to Raymond from comment #49)
did your sb0410 have these two chips ?
ADC: WM8775EDS (4 Channel)
DAC: CS4382
My card looks exactly like this:
http://www.ixbt.com/multimedia/creative-live!24bit/card-big.jpg
Probably, it has all these chips.
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It does:
arecord -f dat -D hw:CARD=CA0106 -t wav -d 5 test.wav
Recording WAVE 'test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo
overrun!!! (at least 0.084 ms long)
^CAborted by signal Interrupt...
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Created attachment 111663
pactl list log
Log of pactl list.
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Title:
[CA0106 - CA0106, playback] Playback problem - Surround
It happens more likely with small buffers and sometimes doesn't happen with
larger buffer. However, this behavior is not consistent:
%[homecomp]:[/tmp/test] arecord -f dat -D hw:CARD=CA0106 -t wav -d 5
--buffer-size=2048 test.wav
Recording WAVE 'test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate
Recording WAVE 'test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo
HW Params of device iec958:CARD=CA0106:
ACCESS: MMAP_INTERLEAVED RW_INTERLEAVED
FORMAT: S16_LE S32_LE
SUBFORMAT: STD
SAMPLE_BITS: [16 32]
FRAME_BITS: [32 64]
CHANNELS: 2
RATE: [48000 192000]
Created attachment 111662
Pulse log
(In reply to Raymond from comment #35)
can you specify device 0
+ capture.pcm {
+type hw
+card $CARD
+ device 0
+
Added this, here's the startup log.
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Created attachment 111585
ALSA test log
I've applied those changes for the ALSA config. I ran the test as
./a.out front:0 0 4 alsa-test.log and here's the output. I stopped it
with Ctrl-C. When I set the fillrate less than 4, it stops with the
assertion failure like before. Setting the fillrate
Good, the file is there and it has those lines you mentioned in #10. Now
how should I modify them? Could you provide a diff to apply? I don't
really get what to put the current ca0106 iec958 slave pcm and hook
into playback slave and create capture slave of asym plugin means. If
the alternative
(In reply to Raymond from comment #14)
you need to put the current ca0106 iec958 slave pcm and hook into playback
slave and create capture slave of asym plugin
Sorry, I don't understand. I'm not that familiar with low-level ALSA configs, I
only did some basic operations with ~/.asoundrc
What
(In reply to Raymond from comment #8)
how did you run the program ?
the program is hardcoded to use 44100Hz , it should run continously without
any error if fillrate is equal to period size
if sound card can report hw_ptr with better grannularity, the program can
still run continously
Created attachment 111615
Fixed PA log
It now doesn't report Cannot lock ctl elem.
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Title:
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Created attachment 111649
ALSA info
Here's the output of alsa-info.sh. The speaker test works, all three
commands without errors. However, I only have 2 speakers so I hear
front left and front right.
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(In reply to Raymond from comment #25)
seem default sample 16 bits has no effect on format , pulseaudio prefer 32
bits
No, it does. I have these options uncommented in my daemon.conf:
default-sample-format = s32le
default-sample-rate = 48000
I have them enabled for some time and PA startup
Created attachment 111616
pcm_avail log
Here's the output of pcm_avail.c program.
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