Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932283AbVKWUFi (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:05:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932285AbVKWUFi (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:05:38 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.205]:51113 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932283AbVKWUFh (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:05:37 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:organization:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=EPFkk9lpmD5+l7J0oRd6A7c7kbm6/nJc9xJZ08OFKef0R+JUY51Qpvfpq92SSFAlqxDmLmk+4T08H2Y7fs1gWNpqdvp6z42mtwDDDoxAijyzh0RZQ2bnaplfUKA3wNWollFtVnyueh05jMDs+D0ZTCxXv/az5eDNBoD3QBrMcBg= Message-ID: <4384CB8B.6040409@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:05:31 +0100 From: Patrizio Bassi Reply-To: patrizio.bassi@gmail.com Organization: patrizio.bassi@gmail.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051027) X-Accept-Language: it, it-it, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Revell CC: Ard van Breemen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG 2579] linux 2.6.* sound problems References: <53L1x-6dC-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <53LkE-6QU-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <53LkW-6QU-49@gated-at.bofh.it> <53LEq-7gr-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <43667406.9070104@gmail.com> <4366A49F.3000101@rainbow-software.org> <43673B6F.5030909@gmail.com> <20051123162216.GG1700@kwaak.net> <1132775178.10453.14.camel@mindpipe> In-Reply-To: <1132775178.10453.14.camel@mindpipe> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1730 Lines: 51 Lee Revell ha scritto: >On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 17:22 +0100, Ard van Breemen wrote: > > >>On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 10:54:55AM +0100, Patrizio Bassi wrote: >> >> >>>i played a bit with bios, but no luck. >>>considering that in my windows copy i have no problems, i'm sure it's >>>linux 2.6 >>> >>>update: can't use linux 2.4, i have nptl only and acpi problems too. >>>i'll play with timers and latency >>> >>> >>One more suggestion: >>try running distributed-net or something else that uses 100% cpu. >>I also have "bad sound" from on-board audio (hp nx9110 notebook >>and some elcheap asus motherboard). Usually it is a bad or cheap >>motherboard design. >>If using your CPU 100% fixes or mostly diminishes your audio >>distortion, you can be 100% sure that the audio part has a very >>bad design (no separate voltage controllers or good power supply >>filters, and no separate power supply circuit, and of course a >>good deal of crosstalk between analog lines and "digital" lines). >> >> >> > >Please try to isolate whether the PCI latency timer change OR the change >from HZ=250 to HZ=100 fixed the problem. > >Lee > > > > it seems both. now i'm using 1000hz with 0x40 latency. i still get some noises but lower than before (lat = 0x20). however i saw you marked it closed as hardware problem, i'm sure it isn't. it' a linux 2.6 problem for me, as 2.4 and windows works perfectly. stop :) a windows copy, running under vmware on linux 2.6, seems to work good too. - 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/