On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 13:37, John Anderson wrote: > So now I've manged to convince the mobo to put scsi on 11, and the sound > card on 10 (was on 5). 11 is shared with a usb controller, but it > doesn't seem to get any interrupts - moving the mouse racks up > interrupts one of the other USB controllers (while true; do cat > /proc/interrupts; sleep 0.6; done). Unfortunately the BIOS settings > don't allow me to set the interrupts for onboard devices. > > I've also turned acpi off (no harm in trying that again, I guess). > > Still getting xruns, doesn't seem to be much different to before. Until > the files are cached, then it's fine, as usual. On the positive side, > did a bunch of recording today, and everything was good (after the usual > preload-to-cache tricks). It's also heartening to know that folks are > running similar spec boxes to mine and not getting xruns. > I wish I had your setup - it's much faster than mine ;-) What bothers me is that we're using *very* similar setups and I don't have any problems with mine. If I were you I would definitely try getting a cheap IDE drive and using it for data (reiserfs of course). You might even try two IDE drives and drop the SCSI controller. Also, it sounds like you're using a USB mouse. I use the little converter from USB to PS/2 just to avoid USB interrupts. My setup now has ICE1712 [Envy24] on IRQ 10, nVidia NV6 [Vanta] on IRQ 11 shared with D-Link Ethernet, dual USB controllers on IRQ 5. Jan
