Ok. I've written another mail about this problem and just continuing the relat, with memory changes. Resuming: when i put more than 128M in my machine with the kernel 2.4.0-test10 or above, the ES1371 sound card generate a noisy sound while playing a sound using the DSP of the card. The music play ok, but with a tick, tick, tick sound with the music. To see the problem completely search by the "PROBLEM: 128M ok but with 192 sound problem." I've exchanged the memory modules with another of the my friend machine. He have a 128M and a 64M too. I've tested two 64M modules and works fine. 128M plus 128M . problem. then, i think that the problem is with the real quantity of memory in the machine and don't with the memory modules. ahh, and the machine works perfectly with the 2.2.18 production kernel. Thank you --------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux thor.gds-corp.com 2.2.18 #2 Wed Dec 13 23:22:24 BRST 2000 i686 unknow -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is the dmesg and above the script ver_linux. Linux version 2.4.1-pre8 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)) #2 Wed Jan 17 19:44:31 BRST 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 00000000000a0000 @ 0000000000000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000000f0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000000000befd000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000002000 @ 000000000bffd000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000000001000 @ 000000000bfff000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000ffff0000 (reserved) Scan SMP from c0000000 for 1024 bytes. Scan SMP from c009fc00 for 1024 bytes. Scan SMP from c00f0000 for 65536 bytes. Scan SMP from c0000000 for 4096 bytes. On node 0 totalpages: 49149 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 45053 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. mapped APIC to ffffe000 (01334000) Kernel command line: mem=196596K root=/dev/hda6 hdd=ide-scsi video=matrox:vesa:0x117 ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi Initializing CPU#0 Detected 598.478 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1192.75 BogoMIPS Memory: 190532k/196596k available (1428k kernel code, 5676k reserved, 481k data, 216k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 03 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.37 (20001109) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0720, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:04.0 Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 DMI 2.0 present. 29 structures occupying 973 bytes. DMI table at 0x000F58DA. BIOS Vendor: Award Software, Inc. BIOS Version: ASUS P2-99 ACPI BIOS Revision 1011 BIOS Release: 08/09/99 System Vendor: System Manufacturer. Product Name: System Name. Version System Version. Serial Number SYS-1234567890. Board Vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.. Board Name: P2-99. Board Version: REV 1.xx. Asset Tag: Asset-1234567890. Starting kswapd v1.8 matroxfb: Matrox Millennium G200 (AGP) detected matroxfb: MTRR's turned on matroxfb: 1024x768x16bpp (virtual: 1024x4094) matroxfb: framebuffer at 0xE3000000, mapped to 0xcc805000, size 8388608 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 fb0: MATROX VGA frame buffer device pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured block: queued sectors max/low 126434kB/94826kB, 384 slots per queue loop: enabling 8 loop devices Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CX10.2A, ATA DISK drive hdc: ATAPI CDROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8200, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 20044080 sectors (10263 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=1247/255/63, UDMA(33) hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0 3c59x.c:LK1.1.12 06 Jan 2000 Donald Becker and others. http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html $Revision: 1.102.2.46 $ See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt eth0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xb800, 00:50:da:25:cf:ec, IRQ 10 product code 'XB' rev 00.12 date 09-02-99 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d. Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 149M agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe4000000 [drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel 440BX @ 0xe4000000 64MB [drm] Initialized mga 2.0.1 20000928 on minor 63 SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 8200 Rev: 1.0f Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray es1371: version v0.27 time 19:49:02 Jan 17 2001 es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x06 PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 00:0a.0 es1371: found es1371 rev 6 at io 0xd000 irq 12 es1371: features: joystick 0x0 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4352:0x5913 (Cirrus Logic CS4297A) usb.c: registered new driver hub PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 00:04.2 uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 5 uhci.c: detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. ACPI: System description tables found ACPI: System description tables loaded ACPI: Subsystem enabled ACPI: System firmware supports: C2 ACPI: System firmware supports: S0 S1 S5 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 216k freed Adding Swap: 72256k swap-space (priority -1) eth0: using NWAY autonegotiation ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Versions installed: (if some fields are empty or look -- unusual then possibly you have very old versions) Linux thor.gds-corp.com 2.2.18 #2 Wed Dec 13 23:22:24 BRST 2000 i686 unknown Kernel modules 2.4.1 Gnu C 2.95.3 Gnu Make 3.79.1 Binutils 2.10.0.24 Linux C Library 2.1.3 Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.1.3 Procps 2.0.7 Mount 2.10o Net-tools 1.57 Console-tools 0.2.3 Sh-utils 2.0 Modules Loaded nls_cp437 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Joel Franco Guzmán GDS - Global Dynamic Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 19354050 | (16) 270-6867 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/