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Tmn

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Registered: 2013-05-29

Posts: 13

[Solved] Alsa is stuttering/Alsa lagging

Hi Arch community

I'm encountering some problems regarding Alsa and my soundcard.

My Soundcard: Asus Xonar Essence ST
Info: Works under Windows (Tested today) and worked in a previous archlinux build
(Different Motherboard/Cpu
OLD: (Asus P6T Deluxe/Core i7 920/8GB DDR3 RAM)
New: (Supermirco X9SCA/Xeon E3 1240v2/16Gb ECC DDR3 RAM))
Problem: Sound stutters. About 1/5 of a second I get no sound. 4/5 of a second I get sound. Tried cmus/speaker-test/flashplayer in Firefox. (flashplayer seems to crash. Firefox freezes... If I don't setup my soundcard to be used nothing crashes so it might also have to do with alsa...).

MY Configuration:

/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf:

blacklist snd_hda_intel

Output of Aplay -l:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ST [Xonar ST], device 0: Multichannel [Multichannel]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ST [Xonar ST], device 1: Digital [Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Settings of the soundcard itself are correct (same as in the old build) therefore as I said I get sound output but I'm encountering stutter/lags.

Thanks in Advance
Tmn

Last edited by Tmn (2013-06-14 21:33:34)

Tmn

Member

Registered: 2013-05-29

Posts: 13

Re: [Solved] Alsa is stuttering/Alsa lagging

I tried some things and finally got fixed it (With a little bit of help from irc).

The problem was blacklist snd_hda_intel (even though my soundcard doesn't depend on it according to lspci -vv). I had to remove it and now everything runs fine without stuttering/lags.

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