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Summary:ASTERISK-02496: Linux 2.6: Timing off when using USB devices
Reporter:gunnar (gunnar)Labels:
Date Opened:2004-09-28 17:55:48Date Closed:2004-09-29 16:06:14
Priority:MinorRegression?No
Status:Closed/CompleteComponents:Core/General
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Description:When using a USB webcam on a box running Asterisk with ztdummy (no ISDN hw) and Linux 2.6, the sound in Asterisk is severly distorted. This applies both to calls made over IAX2 trunks and to prompts being played by the Asterisk box.

As soon as the USB webcam is disconnected, or just the driver is manually rmmod'ed, the sound returns to normal.

The reason I don't just immediately conclude that the webcam's driver is to blame is that I have tried several different webcams using different drivers and the problem persists.


****** ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ******

libpri, zaptel and Asterisk built from CVS sources as of today: Asterisk CVS-HEAD-09/28/04-23:08:55

In the hope that too much information is better than too little information, I include the latest dmesg from the machine in question:


Linux version 2.6.3-16mdk (qateam@updates.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)) #1 Fri Aug 13 16:33:14 MDT 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000002fff0000 - 000000002fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000002fff3000 - 0000000030000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
767MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 196592
 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
 Normal zone: 192496 pages, LIFO batch:16
 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.2 present.
ACPI disabled because your bios is from 2000 and too old
You can enable it with acpi=force
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=301 devfs=mount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent
bootsplash: silent mode.
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes)
Detected 750.494 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Memory: 774360k/786368k available (1817k kernel code, 11256k reserved, 848k data, 272k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 1470.46 BogoMIPS
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 132k freed
CPU:     After generic identify, caps: 0183fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU:     After vendor identify, caps: 0183fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
CPU:     After all inits, caps: 0183fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000020
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 749.0950 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 199.0986 MHz.
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb170, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040211
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Disabled
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 0000:00:07.0
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd4000000, mapped to 0xf0800000, size 16384k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=33
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:4bbb
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
ikconfig 0.7 with /proc/config*
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Initializing Cryptographic API
PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
bootsplash 3.1.4-2004/02/19: looking for picture.... silentjpeg size 14856 bytes, found (800x600, 14808 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 92x32
pty: 1024 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 20 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 1b) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0000:00:07.1
   ide0: BM-DMA at 0xa000-0xa007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
   ide1: BM-DMA at 0xa008-0xa00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: WDC WD400BB-75CAA0, ATA DISK drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX160E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: Host Protected Area detected.
current capacity is 78125000 sectors (40000 MB)
native  capacity is 78125040 sectors (40000 MB)
hda: 78125000 sectors (40000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(66)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 >
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
BIOS EDD facility v0.13 2004-Mar-09, 1 devices found
Please report your BIOS at http://linux.dell.com/edd/results.html
Resume Machine: resuming from /dev/hda5
Resuming from device hda5
Resume Machine: This is normal swap space
PM: Reading pmdisk image.
PM: Resume from disk failed.
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: hda1: orphan cleanup on readonly fs
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 425805
EXT3-fs: hda1: 1 orphan inode deleted
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 272k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbfs
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hub
drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.1
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:07.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0d.0
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 11, io base 0000a400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:07.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0d.0
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: irq 11, io base 0000a800
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 2
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 2
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
SCSI subsystem initialized
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
 Vendor: USB2.0    Model:       HS-CF       Rev: 1.95
 Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
 Vendor: USB2.0    Model:       HS-MS       Rev: 1.95
 Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 1
 Vendor: USB2.0    Model:       HS-SM       Rev: 1.95
 Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 2
 Vendor: USB2.0    Model:       HS-SD/MMC   Rev: 1.95
 Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 3
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
Adding 511520k swap on /dev/hda5.  Priority:-1 extents:1
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected VIA KX133 chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 690M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:07.3
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf1950000, 00:00:e8:99:87:48, IRQ 11
eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139A'
Comments:By: Russell Bryant (russell) 2004-09-28 18:03:15

ok, so ... why are you using a webcam on your Asterisk server?
By: gunnar (gunnar) 2004-09-28 18:12:50

> why are you using a webcam on your Asterisk server?

It's just a question of keeping the number of boxes down. The webcam can be removed or I can set up another machine, but I figured there might be a bug worth looking at here, so I wanted to report it in any case.
By: Mark Spencer (markster) 2004-09-29 10:21:11

Unfortunately this is an operating system level problem.  You may actually have better luck *not* using ztdummy, i'm not sure, but to the degree you are having trouble there's really nothing we can do :(