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Bug 81209
| Summary: | (SCHEDULER ?)Sound distortion on VIA 686b | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Miloslav Trmac <mitr> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | peterm, wtogami |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:50:57 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Clicking may be X traffic. Heavy video traffic on some boxes causes that. Playing with BIOS PCI settings can sometimes help as can setting card specific options in X. The volume one isnt the kernel - that sounds like something is touching mixer settings in the easter egg. Sorry, I forgot to say explicitly that in RHL 8.0 there is no such problem, and redhat-credits apparently hasn't changed. Bug currently seems to be on kernel but assigned to me, I don't know its history but current situation makes no sense so reassigning. Still the same in final.
Strange thing is that starting
ogg123 /usr/share/redhat-credigs.ogg & /usr/libexec/redhat-credits
(or starting ogg123 longer before starting redhat-credits)
results in perfect sound.
Looks like an O(1) scheduler interaction example I think this behavior became far worse with recent (1995+) rawhide kernels, although I am not entirely sure if this is the same behavior that I am seeing. FWIW, neither of these helped: * renicing ogg123 to -20 * renicing ogg123 and esd to -20 * the above + renicing redhat-credits to +19 * the above + renicing X to +19 Swhat is a sound card supposed to do if it doesn't get data? Is it supposed to * be silent * repeat last sample * output random noise ? What I actually get is quite different from (cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp), (most noticeable are regular clicks), but it is certainly not similar to the silence at the start of the ogg file. Bug in redhat-credits actually, causing ogg123 to dump its real-time console output to /dev/dsp. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100918 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
Description of problem: This is one of the bug reports that are unlikely to get fixed, but anyhow: kernel-2.4.20-2.2 Steps to Reproduce: 1. install gnome, redhat-artwork, ... (HW described below) 2. ogg123 /usr/share/redhat-credits.ogg 3. Ctrl-Alt-Shift-triple-click the desktop Expected results: (8.0) The sound is same in both cases, including volume and the silence at start. Actual results: In step 3), I hear clicking sounds at start (seem to be synchronized with desktop redrawing). When the real music starts, it is very distorted and LOUD. Additional info: driver via82cxxx_audio, lspci gives VIA VT82C656 rev. 50, subsystem ID: ECS, unknown product 0987