Alan Taylor <alan-linuxaudiouser@xxxxxxxx>: > On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 22:51 +0200, Wolfgang Woehl wrote: > > irq 10 would be a good choice. Usually it's the first available > > high priority interrupt. > > I tried all 4 empty slots in my PC and was only able to get IRQ5 or > IRQ11. IRQ5 is where I was before... sharing with the video card, > the gigabit ethernet controller, and the USB v2 controller. > > Now I'm in IRQ11, sharing only with the USB v1.1 controller. Instead > of 300 XRUNs per second at 96KHz, I get only one. Also, instead of > 50 XRUNs per second at 88.2KHz, I get only one every 30 seconds. > > So, there's marked improvement, but still not good enough to pull off > a whole reel of music. I don't know why IRQ10 seems to be left > unused altogether. I figured my PC would have assigned an empty IRQ > before making my soundcard share an already used IRQ. Time for more > research. Alan, if you have APIC on your board you could shuffle things around in the BIOS. (I'm not sure, I think on APIC boards the irq 10 rule does not apply.) Wolfgang
