Re: Linux Sound Issues

2003-12-21 Thread Remo Inverardi
Paul, (...) that is skips whenever I do anything that requires CPU resources. I've tried recompiling the kernel to make it more efficient and I've tried using the latest drivers from Creative. Mmh, it's probably just your IDE drive which is *not* accessed in DMA mode. At least, that's what

Re: Linux Sound Issues

2003-12-04 Thread Paul Burkett
Hmm, I think hdparm did the trick... turin:~# hdparm -t /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: Timing buffered disk reads:8 MB in 3.76 seconds = 2.13 MB/sec turin:~# hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: setting using_dma to 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) turin:~# hdparm -t /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: Timing buffered

Re: Linux Sound Issues

2003-11-30 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 04:37:08PM -0800, Paul Burkett wrote: snip Could it be ext3 is just a lot slower than ext2 and can't handle it? Is there anything I can do to tweak this? Or should I move onto XFS or ResierFS? Should I buy a new sound card? Should I try ALSA? Any suggestions would be

Re: Linux Sound Issues

2003-11-30 Thread John Peter
Paul Burkett wrote: I've been having a helluva time to get sound working decently in Linux. The issue isn't so much quality (though I do notice a slight difference in quality compared to Windows, nothing to complain about) but that fact that is skips whenever I do anything that requires CPU

Re: Linux Sound Issues

2003-11-30 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El sábado, 29 de noviembre de 2003, a las 16:37, Paul Burkett escribió: Should I buy a new sound card? Should I try ALSA? Any suggestions Yes, you should try ALSA. You also can try recompiling your kernel including one (or both) low latency patches. As you are running unstable, you can easily do

Re: Linux Sound Issues

2003-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Burkett wrote: I've been having a helluva time to get sound working decently in Linux. The issue isn't so much quality (though I do notice a slight difference in quality compared to Windows, nothing to complain about) but that fact that is skips whenever I do anything that requires CPU

Linux Sound Issues

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Burkett
I've been having a helluva time to get sound working decently in Linux. The issue isn't so much quality (though I do notice a slight difference in quality compared to Windows, nothing to complain about) but that fact that is skips whenever I do anything that requires CPU resources. I've tried