On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:31 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:27 +1000, James Gregory wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I've found that playback of music on my laptop has this horrible,
> > horrible tendency to "skip" (by which I mean that the music stops for
> > some fraction of a second) extremely frequently. This has only been
> > occurring since Ubuntu's -generic kernels came in (I forget which
> > version that was).
>
> I'd check your disk is using dma; PIO disk IO is a great way to turn
> your laptop into a snail.
Hey Rob.
Good thinking, but DMA was enabled. I checked the other settings, and
twiddled them, but it's still skipping. Current config is as follows:
# sudo hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount = 8 (on)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 19457/255/63, sectors = 312581808, start = 0
Thanks,
James.
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