[Blink] Blink hangs on Linux when accessing sound device

[Saúl Ibarra Corretgé]

> It was set to 44100 Hz. I switched to 48000 Hz. Now the behaviour is
> slightly different: Blink works, I can connect to other phones, hang up
> again etc, but Blink still uses 100% CPU (one core of my quadcore).
>

Looks like that is the only sample rate supported by your device, 
according to the USB card information you pasted below.

> I've seen the same behaviour with "sip-communicator", a Java SIP
> softphone. It works but uses 100% CPU (again one core of my
> quadcore). Maybe this is of relevance.
>

We both use PortAudio as an audio backend so problem could probably come 
from there. We know there are issues with this in GNU/Linux systems, but 
our efforts to fix it have been quite vain so far. :-S

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