Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261851AbUFROdy (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:33:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264795AbUFROdy (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:33:54 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:30927 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261851AbUFROdw (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:33:52 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:33:51 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: hetfield666@virgilio.it Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.x ALSA sound is pretty broken In-Reply-To: <1087567432.9282.17.camel@blight.blight> References: <1087567432.9282.17.camel@blight.blight> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.10.1 (Watching The Wheels) SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 15) (Security Through Obscurity) (i386-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1624 Lines: 45 At Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:03:53 +0200, Hetfield wrote: > > i've got hard problems with sound in all 2.6.x, even 2.6.7 kernels. > > with 2.4.2x or windows i've got no problems, so i'm sure it's kernel and > not hardware related. > > the problem is that sound jumps, flickers and isn't good when harddisk > reads lots of data (i mean not 1-2mb but 60-100mb and more) > > i checked irq and there is not conflict, i setted a higher and lower > value of latency and nothing changed. It's a known problem with this hardware. Since the ALSA code isn't change, I suspect the problem is somewhere else, e.g. in the IDE driver code... -- Takashi Iwai ALSA Developer - www.alsa-project.org > > i've the same problems since 2.6.0 kernels. Vanilla and Gentoo too. > I've tried lots of solutions, like disabling preemptile kernel, adding > alsa and oss, only oss, only alsa, as module or built-in. > nothing changes. > > my audio card is a Creative SB PCI128, found by linux as > > > 0000:00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI] (rev > 01) > Subsystem: Unknown device 4942:4c4c > Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 > I/O ports at b000 > > while on Windows i use es1371/3 drivers. > however with 2.4.x i always used es1370 alsa module without problems. > When harddisk is sleeping sound is normally good. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/