[arch-general] Anyone else who has alsa issues?

[Fernando Marcelo]

My situation it's pretty random. I have two soundcards, one cheap on
board and another cheap pci.

With the on board there's no trouble playing two sound streams at the
same time nor  any other complication.

On Board:

00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP65 High Definition Audio (rev a1)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8286
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
        Memory at dddf8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

But while using the pci card the situation turns random. Some times
while playing music with Rhythmbox and watching youtube videos one of
them starts to fail and I just hear buzz. Sometimes it works fine.
Other times (with Ryhthmbox running and music stoped) when I play
videos with VLC I hear no sound at all, but others times it works
fine.

PCI:

01:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1
Audiodrive (rev 01)
        Subsystem: ESS Technology Solo-1 Audio Adapter
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
        I/O ports at ec00 [size=64]
        I/O ports at e880 [size=16]
        I/O ports at e800 [size=16]
        I/O ports at e480 [size=4]
        I/O ports at e400 [size=4]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: ESS ES1938 (Solo-1)
        Kernel modules: snd-es1938

Modules:

lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_codec_realtek   206504  1
snd_seq_dummy           2696  0
snd_seq_oss            31168  0
snd_seq_midi_event      7012  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                53744  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss            40352  0
snd_hda_intel          26664  0
snd_es1938             19876  2
snd_mixer_oss          17540  1 snd_pcm_oss
gameport               11280  2 snd_es1938
snd_hda_codec          71716  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_opl3_lib           10340  1 snd_es1938
snd_mpu401_uart         7524  1 snd_es1938
snd_hwdep               7656  2 snd_hda_codec,snd_opl3_lib
snd_rawmidi            21856  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_pcm                73672  5
snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_es1938,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_device          6768  5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer              21100  3 snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm
snd                    58436  19
snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_es1938,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_codec,snd_opl3_lib,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_hwdep,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc          8876  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
soundcore               6848  1 snd