Florian Schmidt wrote : > Hi, > > interesting that you mention the Xserver. I use a dual graphics card setup atm > [Nvidia GF3 TI and some matrox pci card]. The nvidia card seems to work flawlessly > even with HW accelleration [i use nvidias evil binary only drivers]. The matrox card > OTH disturbs the soundcard severely. Whenever i have activity on my second monitor i > get sound artefacts in jack's output [no cracklling, it's rather as if the volume is > set to 0 for short moments and then back to normal]. There's a certain chance that > this artefact produces an xrun. I suppose it's because the card is on the pci bus. > > I figured it's maybe an irq issue problem, but whatever slot i put the gfx card in - > it made no difference [btw: how do i find out which resources this card uses? it is > not shown by /proc/interrupts]. I also tried putting the soundcard in many different > slots to maybe get it on higher prio irq, but it always gets irq 5 [according to > /proc/interrupts].. > > Should i try a different 2nd gfx card? Should i avoid pci gfx cards at all costs? > Will i just have to live w/o second monitor? How do i find out which hw resources X > is really using? > > Florian Schmidt
You could try to adjust the pci latency timer value of your graphic card and sound card, see this link for a paper on the subject by Daniel Robbins : http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-hw2.html Thomas
