Re: ALSA HELP: Crackling and popping noises with via82xx

From: Timothy Miller
Date: Tue Feb 01 2005 - 22:59:45 EST


On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:55:23 +1100, Lincoln Dale <ltd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 01:34 PM 2/02/2005, Timothy Miller wrote:
> >I've mentioned this problem before. It seemed to go away around the
> >2.6.8 timeframe, but when I started using 2.6.9, it came back. I'm
> >using 2.6.10, and it's still happening.
>
> almost identical system here, other than i'm using an ASUS A7V600
> motherboard but otherwise have identical chipset, graphics card.
> (although the ASUS board has a rev60 version of the sound driver).

Thanks for responding. I may have neglected to mention that I'm not
subscribed, in case anyone else wants to respond.

>
> no problems with audio crackling at all, using 2.6.10 and 2.6.1-rc2-mm2
> with audio compiled into the kernel (not using modules for OSS/ALSA).
>
> perhaps the interrupt is shared with some other device?
> perhaps your speakers are dying?

Definitely not. I can use this same box for days on end in Windows,
and everything works great (well, sound anyway). I boot Linux and it
makes noises.

>
> this is my mythtv box so i'd certainly notice if the audio was bung.
>
> [root@spam root]# uname -a
> Linux spam 2.6.10ltd1 #1 Sun Jan 30 21:06:01 EST 2005 i686 athlon i386
> GNU/Linux
>
> [root@spam root]# lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host
> Bridge (rev 80)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
> 00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
> Capture (rev 11)
> 00:0a.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture
> (rev 11)
> 00:0e.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Winfast TV2000 XP (rev 05)
> 00:0e.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8802 (rev 05)
> 00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID
> Controller (rev 80)
> 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
> 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller (rev 81)
> 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller (rev 81)
> 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller (rev 81)
> 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller (rev 81)
> 00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
> 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [K8T800 South]
> 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
> 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
> 00:13.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt848 Video
> Capture (rev 12)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200
> SE] (rev 01)
> 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE]
> (Secondary) (rev 01)
>
> [root@spam root]# cat /proc/interrupts
> CPU0
> 0: 160440190 IO-APIC-edge timer
> 1: 6157 IO-APIC-edge i8042
> 7: 118047 IO-APIC-edge parport0
> 9: 0 IO-APIC-level acpi
> 12: 165567 IO-APIC-edge i8042
> 14: 403308 IO-APIC-edge ide0
> 15: 1685009 IO-APIC-edge ide1
> 16: 59442009 IO-APIC-level bttv0, bt878
> 17: 0 IO-APIC-level cx88[0], cx88[0]
> 18: 3 IO-APIC-level bttv1
> 21: 37 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd,
> uhci_hcd
> 22: 48672 IO-APIC-level VIA8237
> 23: 139365 IO-APIC-level eth0
>
> cheers,
>
> lincoln.
>

Here's my /proc/interrupts:

CPU0
0: 9862457 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 17739 IO-APIC-edge i8042
7: 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0
9: 0 IO-APIC-level acpi
12: 259939 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 7 IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 22 IO-APIC-edge ide1
169: 369851 IO-APIC-level radeon@pci:0000:01:00.0
177: 51422 IO-APIC-level 3w-xxxx, eth0
193: 3165 IO-APIC-level VIA8233
NMI: 0
LOC: 9862333
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
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