Re: pcm status

2001-01-20 Thread Donald J . Maddox
This is directly traceable to entropy harvesting by /dev/*random. I know it's not an option if you need to use ssh, but not loading random.ko will fix the sound problems when moving the mouse or typing. It doesn't fix the 'hwptr went backwards' messages, though. On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at

Re: pcm status

2001-01-20 Thread Mark Murray
This is directly traceable to entropy harvesting by /dev/*random. I know it's not an option if you need to use ssh, but not loading random.ko will fix the sound problems when moving the mouse or typing. It doesn't fix the 'hwptr went backwards' messages, though. Please tell me if sysctl -w

Re: pcm status

2001-01-20 Thread Donald J . Maddox
If it helps at all, it's marginal. I still get skips. On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 05:36:08PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: This is directly traceable to entropy harvesting by /dev/*random. I know it's not an option if you need to use ssh, but not loading random.ko will fix the sound problems when

Re: pcm status

2001-01-20 Thread Mark Murray
OK, please try this, then; change the HARVEST_RING_SIZE in sys/dev/random/yarrow.h to a smaller power-of-2 (256 or 128 would be good), and let me know how that helps-or-not. Thanks! M If it helps at all, it's marginal. I still get skips. On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 05:36:08PM +0200, Mark

Re: pcm status

2001-01-19 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sean Kelly writes: : I did not have this behavior in -STABLE, but now I do since I upgraded : to -CURRENT. -current's interrupt latency is horrible these days, which seems to manifest itself in problem with the sound driver. I have a -current laptop and get all