On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:07 +0100, Edgar Toernig wrote: > Sigmund Augdal Helberg wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 17:54 +0100, Edgar Toernig wrote: > > > > > > Not the fifo-depth is changed (that's not possible in the bt878), the > > > trigger point at which access to the PCI bus is requested is lowered. > > > > I would be very interrested in testing this change. Do you have a script > > or something that will give quantitative information about whether the > > change improved the situation or not? > > Well it does improve that situation in so far as the card is unusable > in my system without these changes. Without lowering the fifo trigger > level (but with the other changes) I got it working but occasionally, > especially when using the USB bus, I still got fifo overflows. With > the lowered fifo trigger level that's gone. Is there some messages I can look for that appear when the fifo overflows? That I perhaps could count with and without the change? If you are saying that without these changes your card doesn't work at all, then that should be a strong argument for keeping card specific stuff, because I've got quite a few cards working well without these changes. Sigmund > > Ciao, ET.
