Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:37:49 -0600 | From | Herbert Ho <> | Subject | "slow" ide interface = faulty sound? |
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i'm currently running 2.2.14 on an el-cheapo(tm) compaq presario that has a ess 1888 sound card on the motherboard.
for about 1.5 years i've been having trouble playing sound files under linux. it worked somewhat under 2.0.x but died under 2.2.x.
the sound will play for a while, but it seems that when any other process reads from the hard drive, it will die and give me a dma timeout. an unfortunate side effect of this is my floppy drives ceases to work, forcing a reboot.
i've contacted both sound driver authors. i've been told the dma timeout can possibly be the result of a "slow" ide interface. also the lost of my floppy drive can be the result of dma or irq not being freed properly. i guess i'll leave that to you guys. =)
another neat twist in this tale: my bios (compaq brand) reports the sound card on irq 5. but the driver refuses to begin playing unless i specify the irq=7.
/dev/sndstat, syslog, and messages don't point to any problems. i use the sb driver (tried both as module and in kernel).
thanks in advance,
herbert
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