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On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 22:52 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Iau, 2006-10-05 am 16:45 -0400, ysgrifennodd Lee Revell: > > I've heard that some motherboards do evil stuff like implementing legacy drive > > access modes using SMM which would cause dropouts without xruns > > reported. > > They don't. SATA causes audio dropouts on some systems because its fast > enough to starve the audio device of regular enough access to the PCI > bus. If that is a problem the audio device should be tuning PCI > latencies > OK. In fact the Windows driver and IIRC the OSS driver do tune PCI latencies. But that can't be the problem here if analog playback is unaffected. Sounds like electrical noise could be the issue... Lee - 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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