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[Nyall Dawson <nyall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the detailed post - unfortunately I've had no luck after
duplicating your procedure. It *seems* like the sound glitches may be
happening less frequently, but it's hard to tell, and they are
definitely still occurring. 

One thing I forgot to put in my original message was that this problem
also happens when I use pulseaudio to send sound from my UL30A through
to a desktop PC for output. I'm not sure exactly on how pulseaudio works
with network streaming, but my hunch is that since it's exhibiting the
same problem *without* using the local sound card, it's probably not a
bug in alsa but rather something in pulseaudio or elsewhere in the
system which is triggering this.

Possibly this is LP bug #545065, but someone there reports that the
ricotz ppa fixes the problem, which isn't the case for me.

Also, to answer an earlier question, I'm using the 64bit version. Time
to dig a bit deeper! :)

Regards,

Nyall

On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 09:50 +0000, Ruben Ramalho 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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