Bug 139983 – gstreamer-0.8.11 + alsa-lib-1.0.11 + intel 8x0 uli gives a crappy sound

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description ReLx7 2006-07-11 04:27:44 UTC]

Intel 8x0 (uli/ali AC97 onboard) + linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r11 built-in alsa + gst-streamer-alsa-0.8.11 + alsa-lib-1.0.11 produces a crappy/echo/clipping sound in for example gst-properties test with alsasink. All the other alsa-apps without gstreamers works fine.

When i downgrade to alsa-lib-1.0.10 the sound in gst-properties test is fine, so i use alsa-lib-1.0.10 now.

Because i only use the stable tree i think it's strange that alsa-lib-1.0.11 is in the stable tree, because apperently it doesn't work good for me.

emerge --info:
Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r11 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r11 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
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-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -msse3"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -msse3"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="nl_NL.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="nl_NL.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="nl"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 64bit X alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom cli crypt cups dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode firefox foomaticdb fortran gif gimp gmail gmailtimestamps gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib isdnlog jpeg lzw lzw-tiff mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection reiser4 reiserfs scanner sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb xorg xpm xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux linguas_nl userland_GNU video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

.config linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r11:
#
# Sound
#
CONFIG_SOUND=y

#
# Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
#
CONFIG_SND=y
CONFIG_SND_TIMER=y
CONFIG_SND_PCM=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=y
# CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY is not set
CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQ_RTCTIMER_DEFAULT=y
# CONFIG_SND_DYNAMIC_MINORS is not set
CONFIG_SND_SUPPORT_OLD_API=y
# CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK is not set
# CONFIG_SND_DEBUG is not set

#
# Generic devices
#
CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=y
CONFIG_SND_AC97_BUS=y
# CONFIG_SND_DUMMY is not set
# CONFIG_SND_VIRMIDI is not set
# CONFIG_SND_MTPAV is not set
# CONFIG_SND_SERIAL_U16550 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_MPU401 is not set

#
# PCI devices
#
# CONFIG_SND_AD1889 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ALS4000 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ALI5451 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ATIIXP is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ATIIXP_MODEM is not set
# CONFIG_SND_AU8810 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_AU8820 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_AU8830 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_AZT3328 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_BT87X is not set
# CONFIG_SND_CA0106 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_CMIPCI is not set
# CONFIG_SND_CS4281 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_CS46XX is not set
# CONFIG_SND_EMU10K1 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_EMU10K1X is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ENS1370 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ENS1371 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ES1938 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ES1968 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_FM801 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL is not set
# CONFIG_SND_HDSP is not set
# CONFIG_SND_HDSPM is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ICE1712 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ICE1724 is not set
CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=y
# CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0M is not set
# CONFIG_SND_KORG1212 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_MAESTRO3 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_MIXART is not set
# CONFIG_SND_NM256 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_PCXHR is not set
# CONFIG_SND_RME32 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_RME96 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_RME9652 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_SONICVIBES is not set
# CONFIG_SND_TRIDENT is not set
# CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX is not set
# CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX_MODEM is not set
# CONFIG_SND_VX222 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_YMFPCI is not set

#
# USB devices
#
# CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO is not set
# CONFIG_SND_USB_USX2Y is not set

#
# Open Sound System
#
# CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME is not set

/proc/asound/cards:
 0 [M5455          ]: ICH - ALi M5455
                      ALi M5455 with ALC850 at 0x0, irq 24

[Comment 1 Zaheer Abbas Merali (RETIRED) 2006-07-11 05:09:25 UTC]

gstreamer 0.8 is an old stable branch that is only maintained for crucial bug fixed.  You may be better off upgrading apps that use it to the ones that use gstreamer 0.10.

[Comment 2 ReLx7 2006-07-11 07:26:00 UTC]

I use the latest stable gnome (gnome-2.12.3) and the ebuild says: 

=media-libs/gstreamer-0.8*
=media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8*

When I install gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.4 the problem remains. 

[Comment 3 ReLx7 2006-07-11 07:36:38 UTC]

I use only stable packages. Is that wrong?

I think that bugs in the stable branch are more important, then bugs in the unstable branch.

[Comment 4 Zaheer Abbas Merali (RETIRED) 2006-07-11 08:31:43 UTC]

GStreamer 0.10 is the stable branch.  GStreamer 0.8 is in low maintenance mode and will probably never see a new release.

GStreamer 0.10 is also stable in portage.

Gnome 2.14 is also very soon to be stable.

However patches that solve this problem are welcome.

[Comment 5 ReLx7 2006-07-11 14:17:15 UTC]

alsa-lib-1.0.11-r1 makes the same awful noise.

[Comment 6 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-06-27 15:17:48 UTC]

Please, try with something that's actually in the tree now (1.0.14_rc2 is the latest stable on amd64 ATM).