Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:20:20 +0300 | From | Lenar Lõhmus <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] 2.6.x ALSA sound is pretty broken |
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Hello,
Do you have DMA enabled for your hard disk? hdparm -d /dev/hdx will tel you ...
Lenar
Hetfield wrote:
>i've got hard problems with sound in all 2.6.x, even 2.6.7 kernels. > >with 2.4.2x or windows i've got no problems, so i'm sure it's kernel and >not hardware related. > >the problem is that sound jumps, flickers and isn't good when harddisk >reads lots of data (i mean not 1-2mb but 60-100mb and more) > >i checked irq and there is not conflict, i setted a higher and lower >value of latency and nothing changed. > >i've the same problems since 2.6.0 kernels. Vanilla and Gentoo too. >I've tried lots of solutions, like disabling preemptile kernel, adding >alsa and oss, only oss, only alsa, as module or built-in. >nothing changes. > >my audio card is a Creative SB PCI128, found by linux as > > >0000:00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI] (rev >01) > Subsystem: Unknown device 4942:4c4c > Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 > I/O ports at b000 > >while on Windows i use es1371/3 drivers. >however with 2.4.x i always used es1370 alsa module without problems. >When harddisk is sleeping sound is normally good. > >Thanks for support > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >
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