Ticket #563 (closed defect: elsewhere)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write!

Reported by: braden Owned by: lennart
Milestone: Component: module-alsa-*
Keywords: Cc:

Description

I'm seeing a lot of messages in /var/log/messages that look like this: 

May 12 05:18:11 hinge pulseaudio[3580]: module-alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write! Most likely this is an ALSA driver bug. Please report this issue to the PulseAudio developers.

I'm using version 0.9.14.

My sound hardware is "NVidia CK804 with AD1981B Sound Card" according to the Gnome Device Manager.

Change History

  Changed 3 years ago by braden

  • summary changed from ALSA woke us up to w rite new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write! to ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write!

  Changed 3 years ago by lennart

  • status changed from new to closed
  • resolution set to elsewhere

This is a bug in your ALSA driver. Please file a bug report against your ALSA driver!

follow-up: ↓ 4   Changed 3 years ago by braden

Then why does the message say to report the issue to the PulseAudio developers?

Anyway, filed as ALSA issue 4520.

in reply to: ↑ 3   Changed 3 years ago by lennart

Replying to braden:

Then why does the message say to report the issue to the PulseAudio developers?

Current versions of PA don't do this anymore.

  Changed 3 years ago by braden

  • status changed from closed to reopened
  • resolution elsewhere deleted

It's been suggested on the ALSA side that this is a PulseAudio bug:

https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=4520

  Changed 3 years ago by lennart

  • status changed from reopened to closed
  • resolution set to elsewhere

Raymond is wrong.

This really needs fixing in ALSA. ALSA tells us that there is something to write but there isn't. It shouldn't do that.

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