Description of problem: When attempting to play various games on pogo.com, which are Java-based applets, some of the initial sound effects play fine, but after a moment, no further sounds are heard. Similarly, if I am using the user desktop management GUI to configure event-driven sound effects, I hear a light hiss after I test-play each sound - if I wait until the hiss disappears (typically 3-4 seconds after the sound effect itself has stopped), I can then play another sound. If I don't wait, and try to play another one right away, I get nothing. However, in both instances (Java and menu), normal sound effects do play, such as when I logout. Problem happens under both KDE (my usual desktop mode) and under GNOME (which I tried today to verify problem). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora Beta (installed from DVD), with all updates through 1530Z 5 Apr 2008. pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.fc9.x86_64 kde*-4.0.3-5.fc9.x86_64 firefox-3.0-0.52.beta5.fc9.x86_64 java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-0.7.b08.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: Always :-( Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log in as ordinary user under GNOME or KDE 2. Bring up Firefox (untried under Konqueror) 3. Visit http://www.pogo.com and pick a game to play Actual results: When bringing up a game (which appears in a sub-window of Firefox), some of the initial sounds, such as the game's splash jingle, will play, as well as a few (3-4) simple/short sound effects (200-500 ms apiece?), then no sounds thereafter until game is terminated by clicking the 'x' in the upper right-hand corner of the subwindow. When playing a sample audio clip for system events, I hear a light hiss, followed by a quiet click well after (2-3 seconds) after the expected sound has been played, as if the sound clip was expected to be a lot longer than it really is. Expected results: Sounds should continue to play throughout the session - they do under Windows XP as well as SuSE 10.2. I should be able to click on various sample sound clicks while configuring my desktop preferences and not have to wait for the buffer/queue (or whatever) to fully drain on each sound. Additional info: Hardware: HP dv9000z laptop, AMD Turion 64x2, 2GB memory, F9Beta installed on Western Digital MyBook USB drive, NVIDIA MCP51 sound system, Alsa seems to be automatically configured in (was getting some error balloons the other day saying it had failed and was defaulting back to PulseAudio, but that error message has disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared last week). My personal gut feel is that there is a buffering problem between apps and PulseAudio and that PA's work queue is overflowing - i.e., it can't gracefully handle multiple events and/or the hardware is not reacting properly.
This morning's updates somehow clobbered my firefox plugins (/usr/lib64/firefox-3.0b5/plugins directory disappeared !). I did a mkdir, then in plugins added a symbolic link, ln -s /usr/lib64/gcj-4.3.0/libgcjwebplugin.so libgcjwebplugin.so and restarted Firefox, which then reported the usual suspects in 'about:plugins'. Behaviour of this set-up is basically the same as reported initially - there was no improvement due to today's new bits. The last few days have seen a balloon appearing telling me that Alsa has failed and that the sound system is going to its fallback of PulseAudio. This happens regardless of Desktop (KDE vs. GNOME) and presence/absence of Firefox.
Created attachment 301870 [details] Output of pulseaudio -vv when trying to play pogo.com java game Note that I'm running 2.6.25-0.201.rc8.git4.fc9.x86_64 kernel instead of today's 205 kernel because the latter eats my cursor, apparently. Also, this output was created under a GNOME desktop, but my complaint about stuff not playing applies to both KDE and GNOME, and I'll be happy to repeat the pulseaudio -vv under KDE upon request.
Problem appears to persist under Fedora Preview, up through and including this morning's (USA EDT) updates. I note that similar problems are being discussed in the Ubuntu fora, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/198453 and I'm speculating that there is an integration problem with ALSA and/or intel_hda (even though I'm running NVIDIA MCP51 hardware).
Slight improvement noted with the F9 Release version today, as long as I was very patient and waited for the buffers to drain. But longer-length sound effects still cut out, and there's nothing I can do to avoid it.
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