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Originally Posted by twobob
Spoooky weirdness.
For no reason that I can fathom the soundcard decided to play the buffer at the wrong rate.
The next time (after digging around for erronous code) it played at the right rate.
And all subsequent times
Here there may be dragons.
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That is why I like talking directly to hardware chip registers (i.e. "bare metal"). You can skip most of that hidden weirdness buried in libraries. But I have been bitten at the low level by hardware initialization workarounds caused by parasitic transistors in the hardware, and you can see "interesting" hardware glitch workarounds in u-boot, and most device driver code too.
Anything with the complexity level of modern hardware devices and software libraries (like alsa) is going to be plagued with hidden weirdness in the seldom explored corners, that clever programming can usually hide from the consumer (in most "general usage" cases). But then again, it is those very weird behaviors that can often be exploited to root a device and add features to it.
