Re: Sound problems on a C3600

"Thibaut VARENE" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.hppa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/7/07, Julian Stecklina <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tests done using the onboard AD1889 without any .asoundrc:
>
>  > mplayer -ao oss ...
> ...
> AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16be (2 bytes per sample)
> ...
> Works!

Expected

>  > mplayer -ao alsa ...
>
> Doesn't work, noise. (Endian problem? Mplayer's fault?)

Expected

>  > mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=0,0 ...

> Works?!

Unexpected ;)

> I then did some tests using mpg123:
> An mpg123 using OSS produces only noise as well (seems to be the endian
> issue again). An ALSA mpg123 produces some "cracks" and "scritches" (my
> English is probably not good enough to properly describe this), unless I
>    cause some disk access, then it produces distorted (but sometimes
> recognizable) sound...

Last time I tried, mpg123 was working for me. The noise issue is
unfortunately a known one without a clear explanation yet, making hard
(if not impossible) to fix...

> uname -a:
> Linux efficio 2.6.20.1-hppa #12 Mon May 7 17:40:45 CEST 2007 parisc
> PA8600 (PCX-W+) 9000/785/C3600 GNU/Linux
>
> I am happy to supply any needed debugging information. And btw, is the
> signaling issue mentioned in http://wiki.parisc-linux.org/AD1889 fixed, yet?

If by 'signaling issue' you mean the random crash when doing ctrl-C, I
don't know if it's fixed. The best way to check is to try ;)

-- 
Thibaut VARENE
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