[SB-XFi - Creative X-Fi, playback] Sound is distorted -- (Echo with garble)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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alsa-driver (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This happens in many applications, but most often happens when using Orca Screen Reader. The sound will be fine for a moment then start echoing with distortion.
For instance, the "Welcome to Orca" will say: "We We Wefds Wefdsalcome t t t05432o O Ordsa ORcadsa ORca fssgdsgdfas", where random characters are the garble. It is important to note that this is compressed into near the original time-frame of the original sound, so it is near impossible to pick out what is being heard.
When this happens, although it seems certain conditions trigger it, it is system wide. Everything will have that horribly distorted echo.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: alsa-base 1.0.24+
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: XFi [Creative X-Fi], device 0: ctxfi [Front/WaveIn]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: night 16895 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'XFi'/'Creative X-Fi 20K1 Unknown'
Mixer name : '20K1'
Components : ''
Controls : 30
Simple ctrls : 11
Card1.Amixer.info:
Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xf7bfc000 irq 49'
Mixer name : 'ATI R6xx HDMI'
Components : 'HDA:1002aa01,
Controls : 4
Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Date: Fri May 6 06:17:53 2011
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Symptom_
Symptom_Card: HD48x0 audio - HDA ATI HDMI
Symptom_
Symptom_Type: Digital clip or distortion, or "overdriven" sound
Title: [SB-XFi - Creative X-Fi, playback] Sound is distorted
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-28 (7 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 04/13/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0401
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: P5Q PRO TURBO
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer
Are you a regular user of gnome-orca, or does gnome-orca load when it is not needed?
If you are a gnome-orca user, do you have another sound device available? Unfortunately support for the SB X-Fi series of cards is not 100% complete in Linux, due to Creative not releasing much info in the way of specs.