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Re: Audio problems on UL30A with maverick

 

I have the same problems in maverick Asus UL30A and it also get worse
with battery. It's getting my crazy.


I run Gnome with Ubuntu 2.6.35-23-generic on a ASUS UL30A-QX059C


Greetings,


Adrian



On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Ruben Ramalho <rubendrr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, I've got a UL20FT, so I don't know if this applies to you, but the
> only way I got both video and audio working correctly (so far, I
> haven't checked HDMI) was by upgrading to the latest maverick
> kernel, installing linux-backports-modules-alsa-maverick-generic, adding
> the repository ppa:ricotz/unstable and upgrading the alsa libs.
> I also needed to add "options snd-hda-intel model=auto" (without the
> quotes) to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf. I hope that helps.
>
>
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:48:01 +0200
> David Neeley <dbneeley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Sorry--I have a UL30A also, but no sound problems to speak of. I am
>> running Kubuntu Maverick in the 64-bit iteration...are you running 32
>> or 64 bit?
>>
>> (I have no idea if that would make any difference--I am simply seeking
>> to understand why your installation and mine seem so different).
>>
>> Of course, KDE uses a somewhat different sound architecture--so
>> perhaps that is also a factor. You might run a live CD of Kubuntu and
>> see if that has the same symptoms...perhaps Phonon in KDE has a better
>> relationship with the sound?
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 05:18, Nyall Dawson <nyall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I'm wondering if anyone else has run into audio problems since
>> > upgrading to maverick on an Asus UL30A. Ever since the upgrade I've
>> > had constant sound dropouts and glitches. I've tried the following
>> > steps to fix the problem, but with no luck so far:
>> >
>> > - Drop down the default overclocking setting from 3% to 0%
>> > - Install both the 2.6.36 and 2.6.37rc1 kernels from the mainline
>> > ppa
>> > - Install the packages from the ubuntu-audio-dev ppas
>> > - Disabling pulseaudio's glitch free mode using tsched=0 (seemed to
>> > make the problem more extreme)
>> >
>> > Other things I've noticed:
>> > - The problem seems a lot worse when running on battery power
>> > - Pulseaudio logs a lot of "pulseaudio[1700]: ratelimit.c: 129
>> > events suppressed" messages to the user.log
>> >
>> >
>> > Has anyone else encountered this? Does anyone have any debugging
>> > steps I could try to track down this issue?
>> >
>> > Kind regards,
>> > Nyall Dawson
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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