[Bug 658951] Re: [EMU10K1X - Dell Sound Blaster Live!] ALSA test tone not correctly played back.Its emits "pa_stream_writable_size() failed: Connection terminated" error whenever any song is played.The problem is with all application.

[oneman]

I have a solution to this problem!

First, let me mention, I tried reverting to 2.6.32 w/ alsa 1.0.21a w/ no
change and also using the 'crack of the day' ubuntu audio packages.

The key to the fix is in the difference between 1.0.21a and 1.0.23 tho.
I noticed it because on another machine I have scripts I had to create
to switch between 44/48/96 rates manually by updating pulse and alsa
config files and restarting pulse. (because linux audio is so
wonderfull! as long as you know exactly what you want and everything
about everything... or are happy with everything being resampled to
48000 ;P)

Changing two things in the /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf file and then
kicking alsa (restart alsa, altho im not sure what kick it really needs
alsa-utils restart  / alsa-utils reset, try whatever or reboot)

defaults.pcm.compat 0
defaults.pcm.minperiodtime 5000		# in us

remove those two things from that file and kick alsa and things will
work again, digital and analog output both work again on my sblive
value.

I did not test to see which one of them or both was the problem, I'll
let someone else do that wonderful task.

I would like to note one odd thing that happened back in the lucid
versions of alsa and persist till now with the sblive value..

It is best witnessed by using mplayer in the command line to play an
audio file.

The audio will start to play, but the counter will be moved up by 2
seconds or so and then stuck, then once that point is reached, it will
continue on as normal!  This can happen when using -ao pulse or -ao alsa
w/ pulseaudio dead. wierd! But it works never the less! perhaps related
to this new default minperoidtime ...

Thanks and Enjoy!

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[EMU10K1X - Dell Sound Blaster Live!] ALSA test tone not correctly played back.Its emits "pa_stream_writable_size() failed: Connection terminated" error whenever any song is played.The problem is with all application. 
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