Hi Alsa users! Some days ago I got a Terratec EWX 24/96, put her in an free PCI slot and compiled the ice1712 driver as module (Gentoo Linux, kernel version 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 with Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop), as described in the Gentoo Alsa Guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml). Sounds great, but now I discovered the problem: While there is I/O load on the PCI bus on my mainboard (Asus A7N8X-E deluxe) I got heavy drop outs (xruns) and the sound seems to lower its speed (as an walkman with an empty battery), regardless by witch device the load is produced (the most ugliest drop outs I had with load produced by my S-ATA Seagate harddrives, but also when copying a CD on the harddrives or when having heavy network traffic). Now I have played around with different things, I have compiled the sound drivers (helped a little bit), tried different PCI slots (Slot 5 seems to be the best choice and the Terratec got an IRQ alone) and the lowering of the sound disappeared, but the drop outs remained. Also I tried another kernel scheduler (deadline), as described in http://alsa.opensrc.org/faq/#FAQ016, but this was brought no change. Are there any further hints to eliminate the drop outs? It's really annoying to have a great sound card but to get this ugly xruns... Greets, Jascha Berberich -- Jabber: jascha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mail: jascha@xxxxxxxxxxxx IRC: irc.galgenberg.net #galgenberg Public GPG-Key: http://home.arcor.de/lost-and-found/pubkey.asc Fingerprint: 8460 BAC4 B353 C979 38D3 778B E64B 42AA 5AED 1742 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
