Rick Taylor wrote: >On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 18:15:21 +0100 >jordan muscott <morsecode@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>Im really sorry about the volume of nonsense here :( >> >>Slackware 9. >>PIII 866 >>alsa 0.9.7 >> >>Has anyone succesfully recorded via the spdif input on this card using >>arecord? I'm getting lots of 'overuns' which result in jumps when I >>playback the resulting file. I've just built a new kernel with low >>latency but this has made no difference at all. For example: >> >>[jordan@bootsy new]$ arecord -f dat -D spdif 909track.wav >>Recording WAVE '909track.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 >>Hz, Stereo >>overrun!!! (at least 0.090 ms long) >>overrun!!! (at least 0.030 ms long) >>overrun!!! (at least 0.061 ms long) >>overrun!!! (at least 0.030 ms long) >> >>This doesn't look ideal to me either: >> >>[jordan@bootsy jordan]$ cat /proc/interrupts >> CPU0 >> 0: 98023 XT-PIC timer >> 1: 1556 XT-PIC keyboard >> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade >> 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc >>10: 108365 XT-PIC eth0 >>11: 14874 XT-PIC aic7xxx, ICE1712 >>12: 27245 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse >>15: 2 XT-PIC ide1 >>NMI: 0 >>LOC: 97983 >>ERR: 0 >>MIS: 0 >> >>If I use the nvidia drivers for my graphics card then nvidia appears on >>irq 11 as well. My bios doesn't look like it supports setting irqs, and >>I tried switching the slots that my ethernet card (eth0) and my sound >>card are plugged into but they still appear on the same irqs. >> >>Any help or pointers would be much appreciated. Even if someone just >>sais "no, it doens't work for me either", then at least I'll know that >>I'm not the only person who has wasted money on this card :=( >> >> > > :} Them great big cards is called "motherboards". > > Does yours have any distinguishing features? ...Maybe a brand name or model >number? > Hmm, I was dreading the problem could be here: AOpen AX3S Pentium III Celeron Socket 370 133MHz 4x AGP ATX Motherboard. Thats what it sais on the box anyway. > > Any IRQs blocked or not enabled? Can you at least reserve any of them? >Which slots are shared, do you need the SCSI? What's mapped to 3, 5 and 7, >etc? Why is nothing mapped to 3, 5 or 7? > > Yeah I do need the scsi because my only hard drive is plugged into it ;=) I have no idea why nothing is mapped to 3, 5, or 7. I don't think any IRQs are blocked or not enabled, but I've never done any fiddling with IRQs before so I could be missing something. I don't remember my bios offering me the ability to change anything here... I'll have another look next time I boot though. Thanks, Jordan.
