Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] VIA IRQ quirk behaviour change
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
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On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 21:45 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:40:46PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > Some applications such as realtime audio and probably gaming require
> > ACPI to be disabled, as it causes horrible latency problems.  This
> > applies equally to Linux and Windows.
> 
> How, and on what hardware?

Here's a case where the kernel does not see a user's sound card at all
unless ACPI is disabled (second to last comment):

https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2174

Lee

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