>>> I got a new kernel and a new git yesterday. >>> One of them is causing massive latency in my sound system. I looked at the >>> changes to git that were made yesterday, and suspect that the latency came >>> with the kernel. >>> 2.6.31-5-generic is the new kernel. >>> Just for "fun" I reinstalled my entire system this morning, and the latency >>> is the same, so it is not due to any tweaks I have made. >>> I have been running using winecfg's oss sound and padsp for a week or so. >>> It had been working fairly well. >>> Anyway, before I file a bug on Ubuntu against the kernel, I thought I would >>> ask if yesterday's git might be at fault. I don't have time to do >>> regression testing before Friday, but I will do it if needed. >>> Susan >>> >> >>Ubuntu has bugs open for sound issues with the newer kernels. >> >>> (Separate issue -- I have not been able to run dragon NaturallySpeaking >>> with alsa for several months. Timeout issues during training.) >> >>Is there a bug logged for this? > >Yes and yes. >I looked at the bunch of Ubuntu bugs relating to sound with the newest kernel. >There was nothing right on point, so I filed on of my own. >409395. >The alsa bug is: >407970 > >Bottom line -- no working sound in wine right now, that I can figure out. At >all. > >In addition, purging pulseaudio has just gotten much more difficult, as of the >last couple of days. I tried yesterday. Directions that worked 2 weeks ago now >cause desktop to be removed. (I had to re-install system.)
The problem has been identified. Stay tuned. > >This is probably due to a libasound2-plugins and pulseaudio/rtkit >skew; the latest libasound2-plugins needs at least pulseaudio >1:0.9.16~test3 and rtkit 0.3. Karmic has an older version of >pulseaudio (1:0.9.15) at the moment. >
