[Pkg-audacious-maintainers] Bug#498745: audacious: audio output hangs

[John Lindgren]

tags 498745 - moreinfo + unreproducible
thanks

I seem to have missed your email somehow; sorry about that.

If there's a lockup within snd_pcm_writei that only happens with a
specific kernel version, then that sounds a lot like a system or driver
problem.

Peace,
John Lindgren

> I've been using audacious 2.1-1+b1 on linux 2.6.31-rc9 and I haven't had any
> problems yet (I've only been using it again since yesterday).
> 
> So I went back in time for a while and tried audacious 2.1 under the 2.6.26
> kernel... After about 2 minutes of playing, it suddenly hang, but this time
> not only the audio, but also the whole interface and I could do nothing
> about it unless I killed it.
> 
> Also, under 2.6.26, the whole desktop seemed a lot less irresponsive and
> kind of "jumpy", as if something was occupying the CPU (even if there wasn't
> anything special running). I don't remember feeling this when I used it
> regularly, maybe I just got used to the most recent kernels so only now I
> could feel a difference (even sill, it felt "weird").