> hm I have this chipset the audio is horrible, I also had a problem using > reiserfs which caused almost daily reboots, I switched to ext3 and didn't
Was this with an IDE drive by any chance ? The bug involved the southbridge as I recall and any heavy tarffic on both the PCI bus and the IDE cotnrollers would cause corruption. It was shown up most easily with the SB Live, but had the potential to exist with any heavy PCI activity. > reboot for 162 days after that (until the wind blew down a powerline). No one > thinks this makes the least bit of sense, but it's true. Well, different filesystems have different write behaviour patterns, so that does make sense. Though I ahvent got a clue what all the 'ext' things are like - I assume they are similar to a UNIX UFS filesystem though ?, better cacheing and something like softupdates might be causing blocks written to disc to tricle through at a lower rate maybe ? > Probably why the motherboard I have is/was the top choice for low priced > cpu/mb combos (ECS K7VZA) Apparently the same bug is present on really good motherboards too. There are BIOS updates that might help, but in tthe end the best solution is to get the discs off that controller. > If it sounds cleaner that's 'less true' to the original and hence worse. Precisely. Though the sound in games like Salamander (sampled speech) is far worse than any arcade machine. But I think that a Mame core problem actually. > Some ISA soundcards are good, but read up on support for your OS. There was never any support for non-ISA sound cards, and giiven that it has now mutated into OSX and doesnt run on Intel anymore then the chances of getting one are rare. I have intended to look at Drawin device drivers for some time, but nevr quuite got around to it. Luckily ABit still make very nice AMD processor motherboards with a single ISA slot, so it looks like I will be able to happily keep using the old SoundBlasters for sometime to come. cheers, -bat. _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
