has pulseaudio changed in 11.3????

Hi everyone.

Pulse worked for me perfectly (in my old machine, and in the new one) for 2 years or so till now.
But just after the upgrade fron opensuse 11.2 to 11.3, it has started to behave strabgeky sometimes… It was a zypper dup upgrade (worked like a charm from 11.1 to 11.2!). And I dind’t touch the configuration (and was working perfectly before).

Mainly, the problems are with Virtual box and mplayer (and similar things)

With Virtualbox, it makes the sound jerky or even real noise. It seems that if I choose the alsa driver for VBox instead of pulse, (alsa goes through pulse in my system, anyway), sometimes works fine, some times not. With pulse, always fails.

And with mplayer… syncronicity problems everytime I see a film. Can work for some time, and then starts to behave erraticly, stopping the image for some time, and then going fast to catch the sound, and this kind of things…

It does not improve to choose another video driver, so, as usual, it seems the audio one.

It’s the same if I choose alsa. Bus something better (not perfect, but acceptable) if I choose esd audio driver.

For flash on firefox, it’s the same: sometimes it seems to work, and then it satrts to misbehave. You never now when it’s starting… but uses to do. And there is no way (or I don’t now it) to avoid pulse with that.

I would not like to erase pulse from my system. It worked fine before, I can’t believe it is not returning to that now. But if there is no solution for that, will have to.

¿Any idea about if are there any changes in the opensuse 11.3 pulseaudio that could be disturbing my previously working configuration?

But the way, that

load-module module-hal-detect tsched=0

can’t be a solution 'cause in the new /etc/pulse/default.pa there is no module-hal-detect, but module-udev-detect and module-detect. And with these ones, didn’t worked…

Thanks


Don’t know if it’s really important, but, there is the output of the alsa script you recommend use:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=099dc59c87a7484ee894fac7482628ca60f16548

And the other data:

rpm -qa ‘alsa

bluez-alsa-4.64-2.10.x86_64
alsa-firmware-1.0.23-1.2.noarch
alsa-devel-1.0.23-2.12.x86_64
alsa-utils-1.0.23-1.8.x86_64
alsa-oss-1.0.17-29.2.x86_64
FA_clalsadrv-1.1.0-2.1.x86_64
alsa-tools-1.0.23-1.8.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit-1.0.23-1.9.x86_64
alsa-docs-1.0.23-2.12.noarch
java-1_6_0-sun-alsa-1.6.0.u20-1.2.x86_64
alsa-oss-32bit-1.0.17-29.2.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.23-1.9.x86_64
alsa-plugins-1.0.23-1.9.x86_64
alsa-plugins-32bit-1.0.23-1.9.x86_64
libclalsadrv2-2.0.0-0.pm.2.1.x86_64
alsa-1.0.23-2.12.x86_64

libasound2-1.0.23-2.12.x86_64

rpm -qa ‘pulse

libpulse0-32bit-0.9.21-9.2.x86_64
libao-pulse-0.9.3-181.2.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-lirc-0.9.21-9.2.x86_64
libpulse-browse0-0.9.21-9.2.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.21-9.2.x86_64
pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.21-9.2.x86_64
libxine1-pulse-1.1.18.1-2.pm.41.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-lang-0.9.21-9.2.noarch
vlc-aout-pulse-1.1.0-12.pm.16.6.x86_64
pulseaudio-0.9.21-9.2.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.21-9.2.x86_64
libpulse-mainloop-glib0-32bit-0.9.21-9.2.x86_64
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.21-9.2.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit-1.0.23-1.9.x86_64
libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.21-9.2.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-jack-0.9.21-9.2.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.23-1.9.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.21-9.2.x86_64
xmms2-plugin-pulse-0.7-999.pm.75.9.x86_64
libpulse0-0.9.21-9.2.x86_64
pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-0.9.21-9.2.x86_64
audacious-plugins-output-pulse-2.3-3.pm.4.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.21-9.2.x86_64

Nobody more having this problem? It still continues, and after extensive “googleing” still cannot find nothing to this respect…

I also can’t understand why sometimes VirtualBox works OK and sometimes not using the alsa driver…

I am having similar problems.

Everything worked fine in 11.2, but in 11.3 I’m not having much luck getting reliable sound. I’m just trying to update all the packages now to see if it fixes the problem.

So you could try disabling pulse audio, without removing it, to see if that is the problem. Open up a terminal session and enter the following command:

setup-pulseaudio --disable

You will get 20 lines or so of display and then it will be done. I did this after I used the update from RC2 to the final release of openSUSE 11.3. I also had odd sound issues until I disabled pulse.

Thank You,

Just in case you are using KDE - it makes no sense using PulseAudio within KDE, its equivalent is Phonon (which works transparent and does not have to be set). Make sure your soundcard has the highest priority in “Multimedia” in the KDE systemsettings in each section and disable or remove PulseAudio entirely (or as much as possible, there might be some dependencies for libpulse-packages). As I wrote: if you are using KDE.

I’ve fixed it. But I did what you should never do, change two things at once …

I updated all packages, and added my user to the audio group as per this post.