Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Nov 1999 19:54:21 -0600 (CST) | From | Thomas Molina <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.x sound problems |
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On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 iehrenwald@earthlink.net wrote:
> > Beginning early in the 2.3.2X cycle I started getting: > > > > Nov 28 09:10:36 wr5z kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ > > config error? > > > > errors in my log with attendant sound dropouts when playing mp3 sound > > files. The last version which worked well was 2.3.18. Are chainges > > being made to dma/buffers/cache which might be the cause of some of > > these problems? > > I made a message to linux-kernel a week ago about the same topic but I > guess it never went though. I don't know why. Probably Earthlink's > fault. Anyways. Do you happen to be using fbcon? I don't get these > timeouts unless I am scrolling large text files and playing MP3s at the > same time while in a framebuffer console. If I'm in a normal text mode > everything is fine.
I'm using fbcon, but I don't believe scrolling is the sole cause. I'm getting the sound dropouts with a quiet screen. Something as simple as a cron job kicking off in the background to download mail will trigger a sound pause. It seems as if there is no buffering of output where there was before.
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