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
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[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...)
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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
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