Comment 0 for bug 882566

In syslog I was instructed to announce ALSA-developers: snd_pcm_delay returned exceptionally high value. In the same time my VLC player ate all of the available ram and had to be killed.

A bug has come back to my Compal JFL92 in 10.04 (I cannot say, was it in the time of release already) and occurs also in live-CD sessions of 11.04 and 11.10. If there is not a continuous input (moving mouse/touchpad or pressing keys), the system kind of jams (in 11.10 my screen jams like a freeze-frame: eg. seconds/minutes in the clock and gnome-system-monitor are not moving) and the music I am listening sounds like coming from a broken CD (skipping/jumping a bit back in 10.04) or like a jammed phonograph/vinyl record (in 11.10). Quite amazing, isn't it?

It might have something to do with kernel and chipset/motherboard. I remember, that In 9.04 the OS did not even continue loading if I was not ready to start moving my finger in the touchpad during splash to release the jam.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: alsa-base 1.0.22.1+dfsg-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-34.77-generic 2.6.32.44+drm33.19
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-34-generic i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: salsa 1568 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: salsa 1568 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf8400000 irq 20'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC268'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0268,14c00025,00100003 HDA:10573055,10573055,00100700'
   Controls : 15
   Simple ctrls : 12
CheckboxSubmission: 6ad3463d6f644ebf520e6a9e081c26a4
CheckboxSystem: 53fa345743573c8c72788e37aef10f4b
Date: Thu Oct 27 16:03:30 2011
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fi_FI.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
dmi.bios.date: 06/18/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: COMPAL
dmi.bios.version: 1.18
dmi.board.name: JFL92
dmi.board.vendor: -
dmi.board.version: IFT00
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: -
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnCOMPAL:bvr1.18:bd06/18/2008:svn-:pnN/A:pvrN/A:rvn-:rnJFL92:rvrIFT00:cvnNoEnclosure:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: N/A
dmi.product.version: N/A
dmi.sys.vendor: -