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[Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

This is a new pulseaudio package, not sure if this is the full patch http://www.mail-archive.com/pulseaud.../msg07401.html but it should solve stuttering.

For some reason, it does NOT work on the stock kernel, you'll need to install kernel-power.

Doing some tests yesterday it didn't stutter, today it did, so I'm not sure if it's working or not, so I'll release this to the community and leave you to decide.

Packages available here, download all.tar.gz and install all packages except the -dev package.
http://mohammadag.xceleo.org/public/maemo/test/

To pin the package (so it won't be upgraded by apt-get upgrade):

Code:

for x in pulseaudio libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0 pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pulseaudio-module-extra pulseaudio-module-gconf pulseaudio-module-hal pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils

do echo -e "Package: $x

Pin: release a=unstable 

Pin-Priority: 1001\n" >> /etc/apt/preferences

done

Need some feedback, this is not a perfect fix, it just seems to reduce stuttering.

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Testing...

EDIT: No more stuttering when I lock the screen pressing twice the power button... thanks for this!

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Installs ok, playing a internet radio stream and browsing with MicroB doesn't cause any stuttering. I have not tried any FLAC files though(they stuttered with the old PulseAudio, not sure about the new one).

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

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Originally Posted by hawaii (Post 794480)

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Oh holy crap. I actually never knew that was there.

Thanks duders :D

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

all.tar.gz is corrupted. However installed the packages one at a time - pulseaudio-dev gives dependency errors so removed. Can confirm it seems to fix the stuttering and I could be crazy but also seems louder...

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Just reading the developer's changelog brought a big smile to my face, and I wasn't disappointed! MohammadAG, the stuttering has literally disappeared when using the media widget right after startup, and when playing FLACs. These account for most of the recurring stutter I've experienced.

Your packaging these latest versions of N900 system software has literally solved my worst issues with this device. Between this, hildon-desktop, and your transitions.ini, it's made a world of difference! Thanks for going out of your way to prepare these debs.

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

really want to try this...
but i can't seem to install it...
the all.tar.gz file was corrupted

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

For me... i downloaded the all.tar.gz
extracted it and then tried to install each .deb file... but HAM says incompatible package..i need to install them via Xterm? sorry ..but i really wanted o try this as i listen to FLAC a lot and wanted to try this!

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Quote:

Originally Posted by MohammadAG (Post 793851)

This is a new pulseaudio package, not sure if this is the full patch http://www.mail-archive.com/pulseaud.../msg07401.html but it should solve stuttering.

For some reason, it does NOT work on the stock kernel, you'll need to install kernel-power.

Doing some tests yesterday it didn't stutter, today it did, so I'm not sure if it's working or not, so I'll release this to the community and leave you to decide.

Packages available here, download all.tar.gz and install all packages
http://mohammadag.xceleo.org/public/maemo/test/

Need some feedback, this is not a perfect fix, it just seems to reduce stuttering.

Great job mate.
I will test your new pulseaudio driver too.
Can you add volume boost for ringtones?

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Do you know if we need to pin the version to prevent apt-get from restoring to the official one?

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Billiant

I cant get it to stutter at all now. ( running at 1000 ulv )

Thanks for this :) :)

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Like to see this available for the stock kernel, if it's poss. :D

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Yo Yo,

Mohammad You have done it again my friend.

I still have stuttering for FLAC though :
1. Played Massive Attack FLAC in media player
2. Opened MICROb to TMO, music stuttered badly.
3. After browser was done loading, no more stuterring.
4. I did reboot my phone before testing, after install.

Cheers!

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Does it also reduce stutter with MPlayer and VLC?

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

solved my corrupted all.tar.gz..
somehow the archive cannot be opened/extracted through n900, so i downloaded it using my ubuntu laptop & extracted it, then copied it to my n900

installation successfull

no stuttering so far...

nice work MohammadAG

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Quote:

Originally Posted by adhrie (Post 794688)

Just to clarify for others, It's not corrupted, it's compressed.
You have to decompress it and put the files somewhere on the n900 and then run :

Code:

"dpkg -i *.deb"

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Quote:

Originally Posted by eitama (Post 794690)

Just to clarify for others, It's not corrupted, it's compressed.
You have to decompress it and put the files somewhere on the n900 and then run :

Code:

"dpkg -i *.deb"

i did try to decompress it on n900 xterm
i tried using

tar -xzvf [file location]

and i get the following response
tar: corrupted octal value in tar header

i got it decompress using my laptop ubuntu archive manager
after that i copied it to my n900 and do the installation

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Yes, for some reason Busybox's tar can't read the tarball once uncompressed. It might work with gnutar, but the simplest is to extract on a PC and copy to your device.

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Busybox tar doesn't like the tarball.

Install gnu-tar and use that instead ; eg

apt-get install gnu-tar
gtar zxvf all.tar.gz

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Quote:

Originally Posted by adhrie (Post 794702)

That is odd!
I just assumed you tried installing the tar.gz file using app man, my apologies.
I just used 7zip before SCPing.

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Say, is the version that exists inside the all.tar.gz deb files is up-to-date?
I just ran apt-get update / upgrade and it upgraded all sort of pulseaudio files.
I am wondering, did it overwrite your new pulse audio package?

Code:

Nokia-N900:/# apt-get upgrade

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

The following packages have been kept back:

  libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0

The following packages will be upgraded:

  libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0 live-wallpaper pulseaudio

  pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pulseaudio-module-extra

  pulseaudio-module-gconf pulseaudio-module-hal pulseaudio-module-x11

  pulseaudio-utils sleepanalyser

12 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

Need to get 5992kB of archives.

After this operation, 291kB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

Get:1 http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/free live-wallpaper 0.8.2 [4891kB]

Get:2 https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com ./ libpulse0 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 [150kB]

Get:3 https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com ./ libpulse-mainloop-glib0 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 [25.4kB]

Get:4 https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com ./ pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 [88.1kB]

Get:5 https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com ./ pulseaudio 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 [355kB]

Get:6 https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com ./ pulseaudio-esound-compat 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 [39.0kB]

Get:7 https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com ./ pulseaudio-module-extra 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 [138kB]

Get:8 https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com ./ pulseaudio-module-gconf 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 [24.2kB]

Get:9 https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com ./ pulseaudio-module-hal 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 [25.3kB]

Get:10 https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com ./ pulseaudio-utils 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 [58.3kB]

Get:11 https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com ./ pulseaudio-module-x11 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 [17.5kB]

Get:12 http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/free sleepanalyser 1.6-23 [180kB]

Fetched 5992kB in 36s (165kB/s)

(Reading database ... 29385 files and directories currently installed.)

Preparing to replace libpulse0 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 (using .../libpulse0_0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5_armel.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement libpulse0 ...

Preparing to replace libpulse-mainloop-glib0 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 (using .../libpulse-mainloop-glib0_0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5_armel.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement libpulse-mainloop-glib0 ...

Preparing to replace live-wallpaper 0.8 (using .../live-wallpaper_0.8.2_armel.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement live-wallpaper ...

Preparing to replace pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 (using .../pulseaudio-module-bluetooth_0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5_armel.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement pulseaudio-module-bluetooth ...

Preparing to replace pulseaudio 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 (using .../pulseaudio_0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5_armel.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement pulseaudio ...

Preparing to replace pulseaudio-esound-compat 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 (using .../pulseaudio-esound-compat_0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5_armel.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement pulseaudio-esound-compat ...

Preparing to replace pulseaudio-module-extra 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 (using .../pulseaudio-module-extra_0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5_armel.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement pulseaudio-module-extra ...

Preparing to replace pulseaudio-module-gconf 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 (using .../pulseaudio-module-gconf_0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5_armel.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement pulseaudio-module-gconf ...

Preparing to replace pulseaudio-module-hal 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 (using .../pulseaudio-module-hal_0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5_armel.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement pulseaudio-module-hal ...

Preparing to replace pulseaudio-utils 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 (using .../pulseaudio-utils_0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5_armel.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement pulseaudio-utils ...

Preparing to replace pulseaudio-module-x11 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5 (using .../pulseaudio-module-x11_0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5_armel.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement pulseaudio-module-x11 ...

Preparing to replace sleepanalyser 1.6-15 (using .../sleepanalyser_1.6-23_all.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement sleepanalyser ...

Setting up libpulse0 (0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5) ...

Setting up libpulse-mainloop-glib0 (0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5) ...

Setting up live-wallpaper (0.8.2) ...

Setting up pulseaudio-utils (0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5) ...

Setting up pulseaudio-module-x11 (0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5) ...

Setting up sleepanalyser (1.6-23) ...

Setting up pulseaudio-module-bluetooth (0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5) ...

Setting up pulseaudio (0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5) ...

Setting up pulseaudio-esound-compat (0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5) ...

Setting up pulseaudio-module-extra (0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5) ...

Setting up pulseaudio-module-gconf (0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5) ...

Setting up pulseaudio-module-hal (0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5) ...

Nokia-N900:/#

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Yes, should've provided instructions on pinning it, it's cause the new package uses the old version number as PR1.2 depends on it.

Reinstall then pin it.

Code:

for x in pulseaudio libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0 pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pulseaudio-module-extra pulseaudio-module-gconf pulseaudio-module-hal pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils

do echo -e "Package: $x

Pin: release a=unstable 

Pin-Priority: 1001\n" >> /etc/apt/preferences

done

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Quote:

Originally Posted by MohammadAG (Post 794728)

Yes, should've provided instructions on pinning it, it's cause the new package uses the old version number as PR1.2 depends on it.

Reinstall then pin it.

Code:

for x in pulseaudio libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0 pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pulseaudio-module-extra pulseaudio-module-gconf pulseaudio-module-hal pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils

do echo -e "Package: $x

Pin: release a=unstable 

Pin-Priority: 1001\n" >> /etc/apt/preferences

done

You think this can be packed and put into extras-devel?
I can do it if you think it's possible, just don't wanna work on it for nothing.

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Quote:

Originally Posted by eitama (Post 794739)

You think this can be packed and put into extras-devel?
I can do it if you think it's possible, just don't wanna work on it for nothing.

It can be packaged, I'll do it when I get more feedback on this, and I'm currently looking for ways to get it running on the stock kernel.

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Quote:

Originally Posted by MohammadAG (Post 793851)

To pin the package (so it won't be upgraded by apt-get upgrade):

Code:

for x in pulseaudio libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0 pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pulseaudio-module-extra pulseaudio-module-gconf pulseaudio-module-hal pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils

do echo -e "Package: $x

Pin: release a=unstable 

Pin-Priority: 1001\n" >> /etc/apt/preferences

done

Am I need to execute this code in X terminal?

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Quote:

Originally Posted by MohammadAG (Post 794762)

It can be packaged, I'll do it when I get more feedback on this, and I'm currently looking for ways to get it running on the stock kernel.

Cheers buddy.

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigdarkmad (Post 794810)

Am I need to execute this code in X terminal?

Yes, would be easier over ssh :)

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

mohammad you are really great.
and i thing......i love you:)

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Ok guys
I download and decompress all.tar.gz in Windows.
And after upload to my N900.
But App Manager gives me Operation Failed and Unable to update Incompatible application package
What I'm supposed to do?

Thank you

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

I've noticed that when my N900 starts to get slow and you click on something that triggers a sound, you often get multiple sounds(especially when pressing 'X', it sounds like someone hits a drum fast or something). I don't think that happened with the old version.

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Can you somehow get this to work with stock kernel as well Mohammad? It kind of bad that if someone want to use this have to go through power kernel mode

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Quote:

Originally Posted by ToJa92 (Post 794853)

Trust me happened to stock pulse audio too. Once you've opening too many apps or the device been on for more than 1day you might get this symtom.

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Quote:

Originally Posted by maxximuscool (Post 794863)

Can you somehow get this to work with stock kernel as well Mohammad? It kind of bad that if someone want to use this have to go through power kernel mode

I'm looking at the kernel power patches, I seem to have found where st_enable is defined, but I'll need some time to compile this, laptop's X crashes a lot for some reason and the remote scratchbox I was using died.

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Quote:

Originally Posted by MohammadAG (Post 794868)

Good to know that you're getting to it :) many users here still haven't touched Power Kernel. I personally touched it and found that it doesn't really benefiting my every usage other gaming, so I went back to stock by full reflashed and I hope this pulse audio patch may help fix the random stuttering.

Can you confirm on the CPU usage of this new patch? Stock pulse eat quite a lot with built-in speakers.

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Ok I installed it.
Stereo speakers and EarSpeakers max volume levels increased.
Crackling descreased.
Stuttering don't know.

Thank you man

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Quote:

Originally Posted by MohammadAG (Post 794728)

Yes, should've provided instructions on pinning it, it's cause the new package uses the old version number as PR1.2 depends on it.

Reinstall then pin it.

Code:

for x in pulseaudio libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0 pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pulseaudio-module-extra pulseaudio-module-gconf pulseaudio-module-hal pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils

do echo -e "Package: $x

Pin: release a=unstable 

Pin-Priority: 1001\n" >> /etc/apt/preferences

done

I know you know what you already know that you told me to do works, but just to confirm :)

Code:

The following packages have been kept back:

  libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0 libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 pulseaudio

  pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pulseaudio-module-extra

  pulseaudio-module-gconf pulseaudio-module-hal pulseaudio-module-x11

  pulseaudio-utils

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.

Cheers mate.

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Quote:

Originally Posted by gregoranderson (Post 794710)

Busybox tar doesn't like the tarball.

Install gnu-tar and use that instead ; eg

apt-get install gnu-tar
gtar zxvf all.tar.gz

It's no tarball, it's a gzip file, as you can tell from *.gz
Afaik messybox tar doesn't know how to implicitly invoke unzip

get decent tools, you got 32G empty space for those on N900 ;-P
nuke crappybox

/j

Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

ok, so is there gonna be a installable package in some repositories when test are done?