[Pkg-audacious-maintainers] Bug#533559: Bug#533559: Found on 2.1-1 kernel 2.6.30-1-amd64 (2.6.30-5) hda-intel with NVidia MCP61.

[William Pitcock]

----- "Ivan Baldo" <ibaldo at adinet.com.uy> wrote:

> Package: audacious
> Version: 2.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
>   Found on Audacious 2.1-1, kernel 2.6.30-1-amd64 (2.6.30-5),
> hda-intel with
> NVidia MCP61.
>   Using top, the process hd-audio0 (kernel internal) consumes 46% of 1
> CPU
> while Audacious plays, doesn't happen with other programs AFAICT.

Just because audacious2 causes the symptom does not mean it is a bug in Audacious.
This is an ALSA bug.  What is happening is that the HD-Audio driver is not providing
a good default period_size/buffer_size.  As most programs now days are not providing
their own period_size/buffer_size, to give the audio device an opportunity to provide
good defaults, this will show up in other programs.

William