Sorry, I went off on a tangent... If you are using an IDE based disk, and have a secondary drive (hdc or hdd) from which reading is taking place, the intensive IRQ shring could cause problems. If using a parallel based Zip drive or USB drive from which to play the sound file, consider copying the sound file to a mounteddir that is on mounted partition that is part of /dev/hda somewhere.
Also, are you into swap extensively when you hear the choppy sound? And what drive has your swap? -ME Peter Jay Salzman said: > heh. wasn't quite a request, but thanks anyway. :) it was a "your > video card is using irq 15. make sure it's not conflicting with > anything". :) > > this is the kind of thing i can't seem to remember. i google for it > whenever i need it. i should throw it up on my web page just so i > don't bother google with the same question over and over. :) > > thanks, > pete > > > begin ME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Peter Jay Salzman said: >> > i don't know my irq numbers. is 15 usually assigned to something like >> > the timer or usb? >> >> On Systems with IDE based drives, 15 is often secondary IDE. >> >> 0=cpu/timer * >> 1=keyboard * >> 2=Cascade to upper 8 irq * >> 3=/dev/ttyS1 >> 4=/dev/ttyS0 >> 5=often free or sound card or extra par port or serial port >> 6=Floppy Drive Controller # >> 7=parallel port #1 # >> 8=clock/real time clock * >> 9=cascade from 2, effectively "same as "2" but not quite the same * >> 10= often free or sound or usb or firewire or... >> 11= often free or sound or usb or firewire or... >> 12=ps2 mouse if you have one # >> 13=Math Co * >> 14=Primary IDE or SCSI on some systems # >> 15=Secondary IDE # >> >> Of course with the newer IRQ stuff much is not "set" and unchangeable. >> The ones I listed above ith a trailing "*" are pretty much set without >> you >> given choice. >> The ones with trailing "#" often use that IRQ resource when present and >> these are often unchangable, but not always. >> The serial ports are usually set as above, butcan often be altered. >> >> The above describes older x86 based PC IRQ. >> >> With newer systems and PCI with resource sharing and the virtual mapping >> of "extra IRQ" you can find caes where your x86 based linux system will >> report IRQ higher than 15 when you cat /proc/interrupts >> >> Enjoy, >> -ME > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
