[PD-dev] Re: 0.39-test6 ALSA audio broken?

[Miller Puckette]

Hi Claude,

This is weird behavior indeed... what audio hardware are you using?
I'm running nothing but ALSA these days and haven't had that kind of
problem...


On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 01:27:45AM +0100, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:
> Hi Miller, and others,
> 
> With ALSA audio output I get:
> 
> tried but couldn't sync A/D/A
> ^^^ repeated many times
> 
> audio I/O error history:
> seconds ago     error type
>      3.00       A/D/A sync
>      3.00       DAC blocked
>      3.00       A/D/A sync
>      3.00       DAC blocked
>      3.00       A/D/A sync
>      3.00       DAC blocked
>      3.00       A/D/A sync
>      6.92       DAC blocked
>      6.92       A/D/A sync
>      6.92       DAC blocked
>      6.92       A/D/A sync
>      7.09       DAC blocked
>      7.09       A/D/A sync
>      7.09       DAC blocked
>      7.09       A/D/A sync
>      7.09       DAC blocked
>      7.09       A/D/A sync
>      7.09       DAC blocked
>      7.09       A/D/A sync
>      7.44       DAC blocked
> 
> I set the buffer size to as high as 500ms and still got >100ms audio 
> dropouts every few seconds, which is obviously no good at all.
> 
> PortAudio with /dev/dsp works fine with the same settings, no dropouts 
> at all, so I guess that's what I'll use for now.  I have yet to try 
> JACK, and OSS didn't work at all (no devices to choose from, which is 
> strange because PortAudio works fine with /dev/dsp)
> 
> 
> Claude