On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 12:22 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > Max Kanat-Alexander <max_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I think that KT133A is your problem. I have a KT133, and they have > > a famous interrupt problem. That is, at least with my M-Audio Delta 44, > > unless I set the PCI Latency to 0 and turn off PCI Delayed Transaction > > in the BIOS, I get crackle, crackle, crackle. > > Can these parameters be set from a running system in some way, or must this > be done on powerup/reset? You have to do it in the BIOS, usually. > Yes, I had that too, with my SB16 (ISA! Yay!) under Win2k (and Linux), if > the card was using 16bit DMA. 8bit DMA fixed that. > > The current card is an "Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI" (Soundblaster 128 or > something like that), and it worked just fine with win2k (while I had > that), and with Linux, too, as long as the OSS drivers were used. ALSA > inevitably starts to crackle after a while. Yep, sounds similar to my problem (except that I never could use OSS, because it doesn't support my soundcard). I find that forcing ESD to use 48,000 Hz also helps, sometimes, for some odd reason. -Max
