Stuart Shillington schrieb:
Hello,
I've got an Inspiron 1501, and under 4.2/AMD64 when attempting to play
audio I get garbled/repeated/slow audio, using mpg321 and cat blah.au >
/dev/sound. With and without ACPI, with GENERIC & GENERIC.MP. The built
in volume-keys even work.
Chipset is ATI RS485M / SB600.
Deanna Phillips just fixed the audio issue on that chipset, but the
patch is not yet in current. As soon as it is in the tree you could try
to backport it to 4.2 or just switch to current. That would be the
better option, as the SATA controller in IDE mode on your chipset does
not use DMA transfers and will be really slow. In current is a fix for
the ahci controller (which could have been already in 4.2, but a similar
fix got ignored... no rant intended, just wondered why this was not
looked into when I sent it half a year ago), which should improve disk
access speed dramatically.
Kind regards
Markus
