On Tuesday 25 September 2001 08:53, you wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a Delta Dio 2496 and alsa 0.9.0beta7. There are gaps in the sound
> when I switch between windows, but also when I watch movies with aviplayer.
Might be worth checking your hard disk settings, if the root disk is in a
slow setting then you tend to get audio problems.
As root run:
/sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hda
If the speed comes out as something like 3 MB/s then you could try doing:
/sbin/hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda
to enable DMA access and then rechecking the speed (should be around 11-20
depending on the hardware).
With a number of disks I've found that to get a working DMA configuration I
have to change the access mode to Mode 4 rather than Auto in the BIOS as well
(this doesn't seem to be model dependant, out of 5 supposedly identical 20GB
drives on some of the machines here at work 2 need Mode 4 and 3 work with
auto).
You might also try the current CVS rather than Beta7 which had some problems
with the ice1712 driver (didn't work at all for my card).
Hope some of this is useful:
James Tappin
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