PulseAudio and Fan Speeds

[Axis-]

I noticed this while trying to figure out my other problem (here) and they may be directly related. I noticed that when my laptop fan speeds up, it causes a small pause in the sound which in turn causes pulseaudio to fail and the sound flickers for a while (because pulseaudio is trying to catch up with the pause?) until it stops working. I have to close all programs running on pulseaudio and then manually terminate the playback from pulseaudio's volume control before any of the windows will close. If I run a game in full screen, I end up having to "ctrl+alt+backspace" to get things under my control again. If anyone can help me that would be splendid. I can provide further details if necessary. Thanks you in advance.

Axis-

[DrHu]

I can provide further details if necessary.

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 61&start=0
Start with details
In terminal, check

• inxi -F
  --OS detected devices
• inxi -A
  --OS detected audio
• lspci
  --another way of checking

Well pulseaudio might be a problem with your hardware/configurations, something you can check into
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToSetupSoundCards
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/jud ... 904?page=1
http://www.osnews.com/comments/22309

I haven't found that pulseaudio has been much, if any problem on Linux mint 7, then again I am not running an audio studio..
--you can also search in these forums under the search dialog for pulseaudio or any other issue you may have, that users might have posted on, such as fan speeds

[Axis-]

Oh, sorry about that. Let me try this again:

Firstly, I have checked the Internet and the forums and the only similar problem, if not identical (found here), reached a different "ending" than I would have liked. What I would like to know is if there is a way to resolve the conflict between my fan speed and the sound playback via pulseaudio.

inxi -F

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System:    Host user-laptop Kernel 2.6.31-14-generic i686 (32 bit) Distro Linux Mint 8 Helena - Main Edition
CPU:       Dual core Intel T2080 (SMP) cache 1024 KB flags (sse3) bmips 6915.76 
           Clock Speeds: (1) 1067.00 MHz (2) 1733.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller X.Org 1.6.4 Res: 1280x800@59.9hz 
           GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel 945GM GEM 20090712 2009Q2 RC3 x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version 1.4 Mesa 7.6 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card-1 Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel
           Card-2 Plantronics Inc. driver snd-usb-audio
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.20
Network:   Card-1 Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller driver r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI at port 4000 
           Card-2 Atheros AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter driver ath5k v: 0.6.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 120.0GB (3.4% used) 1: /dev/sda Hitachi HTS54161 120.0GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 16G used: 3.9G (26%) fs: ext4 ID:swap-1 size: 0.80GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Info:      Processes 163 Uptime 4:58 Memory 306.5/2004.1MB Client Shell inxi 1.2.6 

note: though I don't think this makes a difference, I am using my usb headset for both input and output.
Card-2 Plantronics Inc. driver snd-usb-audio


inxi -A

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Audio:     Card-1 Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel
           Card-2 Plantronics Inc. driver snd-usb-audio
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.20

lspci

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)
06:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
06:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
06:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
06:04.3 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller

Also, thanks for the links, I'll be sure to check there and report back if I find anything for future reference.

[Axis-]

err... bump. Also, I was getting desperate and started looking into controlling my fan and found out about toshutils, fnfxd, and toshset but when I tried to use them, they all said; "required kernel toshiba support not enabled." Basically, my laptop can't support those programs, so controlling my fan is out of the question.

[Axis-]

Bump again, from all this time of research and still no results I'm beginning to believe that there is no way to manually control the fan speeds on Toshiba laptops made in China (like my A135). Until/If someone decides to make some program to help control this, my problem is unsolvable from that approach. Is there some way to reconfigure pulseaudio so it does not pause when the fan speeds up?

[Axis-]

I found an article:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... &px=ODA0MA

This is probably why I'm having the issues I am, I'll update if this is the reason, meanwhile you might want to make an announcement about this.

[zoox]

This has almost done my head in.
Here is what finally worked for me on Toshiba L532. Mint 8 64bit install.

first. sudo apt-get install sensors-applet
next. sudo sensors-detect

next. answer yes to everything.

exit then restart computer.

next. sudo gedit /etc/default/grub and then change

GRUB_CMLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

to read

..."quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux"

next. sudo update-grub to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg

exit then restart computer.

Hope this helps.