Thanks for enlightening me. At least I now know that it's not just my stupidity. But the fact that a) 0.5 works with fine sound, but is unstable and b) 0.9 works with noisy sound but is stable gives me some hope that somebody can fix the driver to be stable and produce good quality sound. Or maybe I'll just go for a separate sound card...
Cheers Stefan Am 2002.02.28 23:53 schrieb(en) Luc Lanthier: > > I have more to add.. > > I think I now know what's going on. The clue came to me when I > switched to > another desktop display: the sound went smooth. The choppiness went > away. > > This is my system: > AMD Athlon(tm) Processor cpu MHz : 1050.034 > MainBoard: K7T266 Pro2 with VIA KT266A Chipset. > Video: NVidia GeForce3 > > The via8233 device which handles the sound, also handles PCItoISA > Bridge > (pointless, no ISA slots on mainboard), IDE, USB, and, I > assume, the PCI bus > itself. > > . That explains the hardlocks I've gotten in the past with the 0.5.12a > driver. > . so.. > > . I'm probably repeating something someone else said with all this.. > .. but it > doesn't replace the fact that the jitters are happening. Is there a > way to > isolate the sound functions from the rest of the card's priority? > > -- Luc > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > [firesoul@nethack firesoul]$ cat /proc/pci > PCI devices found: > (..snip) > Bus 0, device 17, function 0: > ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge (rev > 0). > Bus 0, device 17, function 1: > IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 6). > Master Capable. Latency=32. > I/O at 0xfc00 [0xfc0f]. > Bus 0, device 17, function 4: > USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (#3) (rev 27). > IRQ 5. > Master Capable. Latency=64. > I/O at 0xe400 [0xe41f]. > Bus 0, device 17, function 3: > USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (#2) (rev 27). > IRQ 5. > Master Capable. Latency=64. > I/O at 0xe000 [0xe01f]. > Bus 0, device 17, function 2: > USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 27). > IRQ 5. > Master Capable. Latency=64. > I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc1f]. > Bus 0, device 17, function 5: > Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio > Controller > (rev 16). > IRQ 5. > I/O at 0xe800 [0xe8ff]. > (snip...) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > > On 28 Feb 2002 16:34:18 EST, Luc Lanthier said: > > > > > It's not just you. > > Using the Alsa 0.5.12a driver, everything works fine for us here at > > TransGaming, except for the occasional complete hardware lockup. > > > > .. I've installed 0.9.12 from CVS and there are no lockups, yet.. > but XMMS > > playback is as you described: jittery and annoying. Playing UO from > wineX > > doesn't crash anymore but it's choppy because of the sound. > > .. and I mean __choppy__. :-/ > > > > .. if anyone is willing to give me pointers on how to debug this, > I'm all ears. > > -- Luc > > > > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:42:58 +0100, Stefan Lange said: > > > > > Hi, > > > I'm using the ac97-codec for the onboard sound of my > motherboard. It's > > > an EPOX 8KHA+ with VIA KT266A chipset, with a 8233 southbridge. > I'm > > > using the snd-via8233 driver from current cvs. It works, but > there are > > > some quality issues: > > > > > > The sampling rate seems to be locked at 48 kHz > > > the snd_ac97_clock option doesn't seem to work for changing the > rate to > > > 44.1 kHz > > > I changed xmms to output 48 kHz, which made quality a lot > better. Is > > > that a hardware or a driver limitation? > > > > > > Although playback is quite OK with 48 kHz, there a some really > annoying > > > "blips and clicks" now and then. I didn't investigate that very > > > thoroughly, but I think I didn't hear these clicks using win98 > on the > > > same machine, so I assume it's a driver issue. > > > > > > Am I missing out something, or is it the driver's fault? > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > Stefan > > > > > > Please CC me, as I'm not subscribed to the list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Alsa-user mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Luc Lanthier, Support Staff Agent > > TransGaming Technologies Inc. > > http://www.transgaming.com > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Alsa-user mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > > > > > > > > -- > Luc Lanthier, Support Staff Agent > TransGaming Technologies Inc. > http://www.transgaming.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
