| Summary: | vlc-0.8.4a, gentoo-sources-2.6.15, alsa-*-1.0.11_rc[12] don't seem to play well together | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Phil Richards <news> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Sound Team <sound> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NEEDINFO | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | gfraser |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | 2005.1 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
|
Description
Phil Richards
2006-01-07 12:06:07 UTC
Here it works fine with both alsa versions. Have you restarted alsa after merge to update the loaded drivers? Here alsa-driver-1.0.11_rc2 have missing symbols but I can't get the symbol name due to kernel bug in module.c that freeze my system on modprobe. 2.6.15 is broken for me. Wrt Comment #1, yes - rebooted machine after each set of driver builds. I've just tried the whole process again and vlc still fails. Before starting (with old ALSA stuff): Stated vlc + played a track. It worked. Unmasked ALSA 1.0.11_rc2 stuff. Emerged it. Rebooted. Tried vlc. It failed to play a track. Same assertion. As I said before, xine and mplayer are both fine - it's only vlc (ironic because I had only just installed vlc before the ALSA update came through - so I only had it working for a day before it broke :-) I don't know what to try next - suggestions welcome. Phil Current machine state: # lsmod Module Size Used by snd_seq 44112 0 snd_seq_device 6796 1 snd_seq wacom 13312 0 ohci1394 27444 0 snd_intel8x0 26268 1 snd_ac97_codec 80032 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_bus 2048 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm 69124 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 18820 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 39232 8 snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer snd_page_alloc 7816 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm And equery l alsa output: [I--] [ ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.11_rc2 (0) [I--] [ ] media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.11_rc2 (0) [I--] [ ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.11_rc2 (0) [I--] [ ] media-sound/alsa-tools-1.0.11_rc2 (0.9) [I--] [ ] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.11_rc2 (0.9) And, for example: ~ # ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.15-gentoo/alsa-driver/acore/snd-pcm.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82964 Jan 12 20:01 /lib/modules/2.6.15-gentoo/alsa-driver/acore/snd-pcm.ko ~ # uptime 21:26:00 up 14 min, 6 users, load average: 0.06, 0.19, 0.15 ~ # date Thu Jan 12 21:26:49 GMT 2006 ~ # uname -a Linux derisoft 2.6.15-gentoo #6 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 7 13:57:08 GMT 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Had a quick hunt on the ALSA bug tracker - there is some similarity with this problem (but it is not identical - it certainly applies to the same hardware, though)... https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1558 Ok, even weirder behaviour: gmplayer fails, mplayer works. gmplayer fails with: [...flac file opening...] AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 800.0 kbit/56.69% (ratio: 100000->176400) Selected audio codec: [ffflac] afm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg FLAC audio decoder) ========================================================================== Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le... AF_pre: 44100Hz/2ch/floatle alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default gmplayer: pcm_plug.c:384: snd_pcm_plug_change_channels: Assertion `snd_pcm_format_linear(slv->format)' failed. MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: ao2_init mplayer, on the other hand, does this: [... flac file opening exactly as before...] AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 800.0 kbit/56.69% (ratio: 100000->176400) Selected audio codec: [ffflac] afm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg FLAC audio decoder) ========================================================================== Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le... AF_pre: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default alsa: 44100 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/60208 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bps) Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le... [... and music plays ...] The obvious difference is AF_pre: with gmplayer it is 44100Hz/2ch/floatle (fail) with mplayer it is 44100Hz/2ch/s16le (ok) Don't know if this casts any light on anything, but considering that mplayer and gmplayer are the same binary, it is doesn't seem to be a library link issue - more of a config one. Phil Oh, if I flip gmplayer from using alsa drivers (-ao alsa) to ESD (-ao esd) then there is no crash, and I get: [...] AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 800.0 kbit/56.69% (ratio: 100000->176400) Selected audio codec: [ffflac] afm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg FLAC audio decoder) ========================================================================== Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le... AF_pre: 44100Hz/2ch/floatle [AO ESD] latency: [server: 0.28s, net: 0.00s] (adjust 0.28s) AO: [esd] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bps) Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le... [...] (Works with -ao sdl, too) The same problem for me when running VLC. My emerge --info: Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre15 Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks prelink sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.void.lv http://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3ds 7zip X a52 aac ace alsa apm asf avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdio cdr cdrom cpudetection crypt cups curl dbus dga dts dv effects encode exif expat fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint glitz glut gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn imlib inkjar ipv6 irssi jabber java javascript jpeg lcms ldap libg++ libsamplerate libwww live lzo mad matroska mikmod mmx mng moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpi ncurses network nls nowin nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis on-the-fly-crypt opengl oss pam pdflib perl plugin png python quicktime readline rtc screen sdl shout silc sndfile socks5 speex spell sse sse2 ssl stream svg symlink tcltk tcpd tga theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales utf8 vcd vlm vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows xanim xchat xml2 xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS Downgrading to alsa-*-1.0.10 solved the problem. Should be fixed by last rc, can you give that a try? (In reply to comment #10) > Should be fixed by last rc, can you give that a try? > I was running alsa-*-1.0.10, then did a "emerge -auDvN world", run "vlc" and the problem came up. :/ Downgraded again and everything is ok. ;) Ok, I've updated to gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r2 and alsa*-1.0.11_rc3, re-emerged vlc (just in case there were any alsa header changes that might cause problems), rebooted, and... vlc: pcm_plug.c:384: snd_pcm_plug_change_channels: Assertion `snd_pcm_format_linear(slv->format)' failed. So, no, the new alsa release candidate didn't improve anything... VLC's alsa output module frequently gives periods of silence during plackback when I use it on both my x86 and ~x86 installs. Console give errors about broken pipes. VLC message window says alsa is starving for output. Arts module works as it should. Narrowed the problem down to just alsa output module. (info for stable system with only ~x86 portage, vlc, and avahi) Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r2 i686 Celeron (Mendocino) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache collision-protect cvs distlocks keeptemp keepwork noclean notitles sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups eds emboss encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_mach64" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.10 media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.10 Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01) sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1 I still have the problem with: vlc-0.8.4a-r1 gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r7 alsa-*-1.0.11_rc3 However, I've now dug out an old Creative sound card, put that in and everything works fine. It appears to be a problem with the intel_8x0 driver, which I am now going to disable and forget about... I would close the bug report, but it is probably still a real problem, and there is a Cc... Phil (In reply to comment #15) > I still have the problem with: > vlc-0.8.4a-r1 > gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r7 > alsa-*-1.0.11_rc3 > > However, I've now dug out an old Creative sound card, put that in and > everything works fine. It appears to be a problem with the intel_8x0 driver, > which I am now going to disable and forget about... > > I would close the bug report, but it is probably still a real problem, and > there is a Cc... > > Phil > Well, i use that intel_8x0 driver to, but i have masked all alsa-*rc* packages, and i have the latest "stable" driver. I think the bug should be open until it is fixed. Btw, is it a upstream problem or just gentoo specific? alsa-driver-1.0.11_rc4 has no problems so i think this bug can now be closed. I experienced this exact error message whenever I tried to run music files on this version of VLC, and it crashed.. I found the VLC 'Alsa output' pref. was 'stuck' on default. Refresh list did nothing. To cut a long story short, the solution was in KDE Control Center > Sound & Multimedia > Sound > Harware tab, where Autodetect was selected. Simply changing this to 'Advanced Linux Sound..' fixed things such that I could select/set the VLC pref. to other than 'default', and playing sound files did not segfault... Does rc5 have this problem still? 1.0.13 is now the latest version, haven't heard of problems, and I cannot reproduce the issue. |
