[jaunty] ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card 'Intel'

[Shirish Agarwal]

Binary package hint: alsa-utils

Hi all,
 I have been having crackling audio stuff. I ran a .VOB file under VLC and got the following output.

[00000460] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:2 samplerate:48000 bitrate:192000
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card 'Intel'
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2202:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM iec958:AES0=0x2,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2

in gnome-sound-properties everything is set to alsa. Please lemme know if any more tests or anything is needed.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: alsa-utils 1.0.18-1ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH: custom, user
 LANG=en_IN
SourcePackage: alsa-utils
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-2-ub-generic i686

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

Putting it under 2.6.28-3 or 2.6.28-4 has the same thing.

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

I get better quality of audio by doing the following :-

Edit /etc/pulse/default.pa and specific this line

load-module module-hal-detect

Add this bit to the same

load-module module-hal-detect tsched=0

Doing so makes the audio frames not drop.

[Jude Cooks (judecooks)]

Same for me as well, my audio quality returns to normal when I add tsched=0 to the PA config file.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

What are the contents of /etc/asound.conf and/or ~/.asoundrc?

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

Daniel,
      You should close it down for the moment for I'm back on Intrepid
for the moment. Would go back to Jaunty in a week or so then perhaps
may be able to give the details, sorry :(

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[aus (aus.)]

What fixed the problem for me for vlc was to install vlc-plugin-pulse, which was not used by default.

So sudo apt-get install vlc-plugin-pulse stopped the crackling (running jaunty).