Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:56:23 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.11-mm2 vs audio for kino and tvtime, now 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 |
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Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote: > > ... > tvtime works, no audio glitches in the startup. This is a pcHDTV-3000 > card, running in Never Twice Same Color mode as yet. > > xsane works normally I believe, doing a preview scan ok.
Whew.
> kino works, but doesn't really want to time share with the much cpu > hungrier tvtime, this results a very noticeable lag in the preview > video coming in directly from the cameras imager via firewire, and > sometimes an outright freeze of 2-3 seconds duration when kmail is > makeing a mail fetch run.
Is that unexpected? Are there other kernels which you found better behaved in this regard? There are CPU scheduler changes in -mm, but they're unlikely to affect UP or small SMP.
> spcagui works once I'd reinstalled the spca50x stuff > > /. pops right up in mozilla-1.7.5, also in firefox > > Those seem to be the main things of interest right now, to me. > > Anything else I should specifically check on this UP machine? > > As I add content to this message, I am occasionally seeing lags > between what I type and its showing up on the screen but its > certainly better than 2.6.10 or 11 was by quite a ways. This is > related to the kino lags in that I believe its kmail's net access > that is causeing them.
hm, OK. Is much disk I/O happening during the lags?
> Overall, I don't have any instant squawks Andrew. Looks good, > generally feels good. Itches might develop later though. I'm using > the cfq scheduler, were there any changes of note there?
Relative to 2.6.121-mm2? Yes, CFQ underwent radical changes. - 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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