Debian Bug report logs - #618295
audacious: major skipping on VIA 8235 and ALSA

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jonathan Lane <jonathan.w.lane@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: audacious: major skipping on VIA 8235 and ALSA

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:32:09 -0400

Package: audacious
Version: 2.3-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Audacious skips, frequently, almost an entire second at a time of a track, makin
g it unusable as a music player.  This happens with MIDI playback (fluidsynth ba
ckend), local mp3 and Ogg Vorbis files, and even mp3 and ogg streams.  Playing those same audio files in mplayer (from the command line with no extra parameters
) worked fine.

Jon

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages audacious depends on:
ii  audacious-plugins     2.3+dfsg-1+b2      Base plugins for audacious
ii  dbus                  1.4.6-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dbus-x11              1.4.6-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gtk2-engines-pixbuf   2.20.1-2           Pixbuf-based theme for GTK+ 2.x
ii  libatk1.0-0           1.30.0-1           The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudclient2         2.3-2              audacious dbus remote control libr
ii  libaudcore1           2.3-2              audacious core engine library
ii  libaudid3tag2         2.3-2              audacious id3 tag manipulation lib
ii  libc6                 2.11.2-11          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2             1.10.2-1.1~bpo60+1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3           1.4.6-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2      0.88-2.1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1        2.8.0-2.1          generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6          2.4.4-1            FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0          2.28.1-1+b1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0           2.20.1-2           The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6               2:1.0.7-1          X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libmcs1               0.7.1-1.1          Abstraction library to store confi
ii  libmowgli1            0.6.1-1            a high performance development fra
ii  libpango1.0-0         1.28.3-1+squeeze1  Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                2:1.2.0-1          X11 Session Management library

Versions of packages audacious recommends:
ii  unzip                         6.0-4      De-archiver for .zip files

audacious suggests no packages.

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Message #10 received at 618295@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: John Lindgren <john.lindgren@tds.net>

To: Jonathan Lane <jonathan.w.lane@gmail.com>, control@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 618295@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: audacious: major skipping on VIA 8235 and ALSA

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:38:15 -0400

severity 618295 important
thanks

Hi Jonathan,

I am sorry to hear you are having trouble with audio output.  I am the
author of the ALSA plugin and would like to see it "just work" on every
system out there.  Unfortunately I have no experience with this
particular sound card.  One thing I would suggest is to try a newer
version such as 2.4.4, which fixes problems with some cards.

http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
important
    a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package,
without rendering it completely unusable to everyone.

-- John Lindgren

Message #17 received at 618295@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>

To: 618295@bugs.debian.org

Subject: workaround for issue 618295

Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 08:40:57 -0400

I found this fixed the issue for me while running Gentoo, and now on Debian
Squeeze it is also working.

msoulier@anton:~$ cat /etc/asound.conf 
pcm.via {
  type plug
  slave.pcm "dmix:V8235,0"
}

pcm.!default via

-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
--Albert Einstein

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