flatfish,
   It sure sounds like you've done all the right stuff. Sorry you're still
having problems. If the SB128 is working that well, then it really does
point to either the driver (are other1010 users having trouble?) your
specific card (not likely) or some level of configuration other than IRQs
which you've tried already. (Although I don't remember if you posted any IRQ
data in some earlier thread...)

   Have you looked at the PCI latency timer tweaks?

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-hw2.html

   Or the small amount of IRQ stuff we put up for Ardour/Alsa/Jack users?

http://www.djcj.org/

(Look at the Low Latency MINI HOWTO bottom of the page.)

   I would still suggest you try jack as with jack you can control the
buffer sizes in the command line. This helped me before I found the root
cause of my problems...Gnome. Switched to fluxbox now much better. Almost no
xruns on two boxes.

With best regards,
Mark

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Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 10:06 AM
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Subject: [Alsa-user] Delta 66 ticks and pops.


I have a Delta 66 in an Abit BH6 board that gets ticks and
pops when playing mp3's and doing anything video  like
dragging a window around or even selecting a message in
knews. Even having gaim pop up a message, no sound on,
may cause a tick or pop or stutter.

Mandrake 8.0 with the version of ALSA (rc2) that ships with it.

BH6 with 1.2ghz PIII and 512mb, no irq conflicts and I have
tried both the dedicated PCI slots and the shared slots and
even tried forcing an irq to the slot. It does the same thing
with an Nvidia, ATI or Matrox AGP card installed and the driver
doesn't seem to matter. I have also tried both enabling and
disabling a video irq. I also disabled the arts sound driver and
turned off system sounds.
BTW the first slot shares IRQ's with the AGP card so I didn't
even consider using that one :)

I have turned off all eye candy and played with the buffers and
other settings in xmms and Zinf.
Using the OSS plugin for xmms works a little bit better than
the alsa output plugin, but both are mostly unusable.
I have DMA and all the other performance things turned on for
the hard drives, but it is the same with out them.

It is definately video related.

Just for kicks I tossed a Soundblaster 128 PCI (Ensoniq
chipset?) into the system and it plays back fine even with all
the eye candy turned back on so this is definately an issue
with the Delta  driver.
I also tried my 1010 which gave me the same exact troubles.
Both cards work fine under Windows.

I don't notice any activity via gkrellum, or the hard driver
lights or CPU load or anything when it fails.

One thing I noticed is that under kde control panel it says :

Installed driver: Type 10 Alsa emulation.

In conclusion, this acts just like the classic video card hogging
the pci bus problem we used to have under Windows before
AGP cards were availible.


Does anyone have any ideas?

I would like to experiment with JACK and such, but if I can't
get a pro level audio card to function playing an mp3 I won't
be able to.

Thanks in advance for any and all advice!

flatfish

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