Bug 497744 - Obnoxious crackling sound from usb audio speakers
Summary: Obnoxious crackling sound from usb audio speakers
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-04-26 19:48 UTC by John Ellson
Modified: 2010-06-28 12:13 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-06-28 12:13:43 UTC
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Description John Ellson 2009-04-26 19:48:01 UTC
Description of problem:
I'm getting exactly the problem described in:
   http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=806555
also in:
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353787
with my Logitech AudioHub:

** /proc/asound/cards:
 1 [Speaker        ]: USB-Audio - AudioHub Speaker
                      HOLTEK  AudioHub Speaker at usb-0000:00:02.1-7.4, full speed

** lsusb:
   Bus 001 Device 006: ID 046d:0a0e Logitech, Inc.

Eventually in that report a fix is identified as a kernel config change to disable:
   CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TT_NEWSCHED

The rawhide kernel has this config enabled.

I figured that since this was a sound problem I should report it against pulseaudio first, and then if you concur that it is a kernel problem it will carry more weight.

I'd try building a kernel locally, but the instructions at:
    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel
don't work.
   

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.29.1-102.fc11.x86_64
pulseaudio-0.9.15-11.fc11.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Play sound through Logitech USB speakers
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
Sound + regular (~10Hz) "crackling" sounds.   (probably spikes)

Expected results:
Undistorted sound

Additional info:

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2009-04-27 02:08:25 UTC
Sounds reasonable. Will reassign to kernel.

Comment 2 Lubomir Rintel 2009-04-28 09:13:50 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> I'd try building a kernel locally, but the instructions at:
>     http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel
> don't work.

Could you please specify what exactly didn't work, so it can eventually be fixed?

Comment 3 John Ellson 2009-04-29 09:33:05 UTC
Sure.  The "make oldconfig" step fails.


$ pwd
/home/ellson/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.29/linux-2.6.29.x86_64
$ ls -l Makefile
-rw-r--r--. 1 ellson ellson 54910 2009-04-29 05:24 Makefile
$ make oldconfig
Makefile:446: /home/ellson/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.29/linux-2.6.29.x86_64/arch/linux.x86_64/Makefile: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/home/ellson/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.29/linux-2.6.29.x86_64/arch/linux.x86_64/Makefile'.  Stop.
$

Comment 4 John Ellson 2009-04-29 09:40:39 UTC
Problem was that I had $ARCH set in my environment....

Comment 5 John Ellson 2009-04-29 17:19:40 UTC
The instructions need to tell you how to build kernel-firmware.

This text is from:
   http://littlepiphany.com/technology/how-to-build-the-latest-fedora-kernel/


kernel-firmware
if you need to build the firmware module then change this line to this in the
~/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel.spec

%define with_firmware  %{?_with_firmware:     0} %{?!_with_firmware:     1}

Comment 6 John Ellson 2009-04-29 21:32:07 UTC
Finally got my kernel built.

The good news is that the kernel config changes stops the obnoxious crackling.

The bad news is that there is a really loud noise burst when opening Sound Preferences, or when opening Rhythmbox (pulseaudio killed in between)

Comment 7 Lennart Poettering 2009-04-30 20:10:37 UTC
That other thing is probably bug 497742

Comment 8 John Ellson 2009-05-01 12:19:09 UTC
I just read 497742 and yes, that looks like a fair description of the startup noise issue.

Comment 9 John Ellson 2009-05-20 23:35:11 UTC
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TT_NEWSCHED = no


What do I have to do to get this verified kernel configuration fix incorporated into the Fedora kernels?

Comment 10 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 14:37:16 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 11 Kevin R. Page 2009-06-12 21:34:29 UTC
I'm also hearing this on F11 with Logitech V10 USB speakers idVendor=046d, idProduct=0a10.

(fwiw I've also got pulseaudio-0.9.15-14.fc11 installed from koji when I thought bug #497742 might be the problem, but from comment #9 it seems this is a kernel issue)

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Comment 13 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 12:13:43 UTC
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