sam, i believe this person has the same problem that you do:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=linux+matrox+video+sound+problem&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=78gq6v%24qq4%241%40nnrp1.dejanews.com&rnum=6 but wait, there's more. i believe these people have the same problem as you do, also. the only difference is that they're running windows, not linux: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&th=608077026e58961c&rnum=26 wierd. pete begin Samuel Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:43:21PM -0800, ME wrote: > > 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. > > I've got a 3ware RAID controller. All my music lives on /dev/sda, which > is a 4-disk RAID-10(stripe of mirrors). > > I tried cat'ing the file to /dev/null before playing it so that it would > be in the buffer cache. It still skipped. > > > Also, are you into swap extensively when you hear the choppy sound? > > And what drive has your swap? > > /dev/sda also has my swap, but I'm only using 32B (yes, bytes) of swap, > out of ~1000MB. > > > 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". :) > > I checked; the video card is the only thing on IRQ 15. The sound card > and my USB controller share IRQ 11, but I can transfer files at full > speed from my USB keychain-disk without any sound problems. snip _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
