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Tes--

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Registered: 2009-11-13

Posts: 44

[solved] SPDIF times out

Hi,

I've connected my PC to a receiver using spdif / iec958 / toslink, which works fine. Except after a few seconds of silence the entire link is powered down which produces an irritating popping sound. Also, there is a small delay before I can hear the output because it has to power on again.

/sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save is already 0 and /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save_controller = N.

Does anybody have any ideas?

My current workaround is continuously playing silence in the background, but for some mysterious reason that causes pulseaudio to use 5% cpu.

Last edited by Tes-- (2010-10-09 08:31:50)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [solved] SPDIF times out

Have you read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Als … g_Playback and other parts of the alsa article?

Tes--

Member

Registered: 2009-11-13

Posts: 44

Re: [solved] SPDIF times out

Yes, I already tried that, but it didn't work.

edit:
Alright, I solved it by editing /etc/pulse/default.pa and commenting out the line

load-module module-suspend-on-idle

Last edited by Tes-- (2010-10-09 08:31:37)