Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932220AbWJEV0g (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:26:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932221AbWJEV0g (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:26:36 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:36290 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932220AbWJEV0f (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:26:35 -0400 Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] Pb with simultaneous SATA and ALSA I/O From: Alan Cox To: Lee Revell Cc: Dominique Dumont , Francesco Peeters , alsa-user , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <1160081110.2481.104.camel@mindpipe> References: <877izsp3dm.fsf@gandalf.hd.free.fr> <13158.212.123.217.246.1159186633.squirrel@www.fampeeters.com> <87y7rusddc.fsf@gandalf.hd.free.fr> <1160081110.2481.104.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:52:13 +0100 Message-Id: <1160085133.1607.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 681 Lines: 15 Ar Iau, 2006-10-05 am 16:45 -0400, ysgrifennodd Lee Revell: > I've heard that some motherboards do evil stuff like implementing legacy drive > access modes using SMM which would cause dropouts without xruns > reported. They don't. SATA causes audio dropouts on some systems because its fast enough to starve the audio device of regular enough access to the PCI bus. If that is a problem the audio device should be tuning PCI latencies - 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/