On Friday 09 January 2009 00:23:32 Chris wrote: > 2009/1/8 Renke Brausse <rbrausse at gmx.net>: > > sorry, off topic - but I can't resist... > > > > Am Freitag, den 09.01.2009, 00:50 +0100 schrieb Lennart Poettering: > >> and > >> of course because software I write doesn't have any bugs! > > > > do you need a new job? just contact me :) [:p] > > If you need a programmer who can produce obscure bugs out of thin air, > I'm your man, otherwise go for Lennart! > > Anyway, I tried the nv driver in case it was the nvidia taint messing > up things but no change in behaviour. > > Looking at Lennart's options, I doubt that the sound card driver is > bad. The ICE1712 chip has been around for at least 6 years in my > experience. My employer makes embedded Linux devices and we've used > various M-Audio devices, all using the ICE1712 since RedHat 7.3! > Doesn't make it impossible but quite unlikely. > > Whilst I don't know much about the driver in detail, and I guess it > hasn't been touched for a long time, I was under the impression it was > a well documented and supported device. > > So I'm still thinking that the problem is related to my XOrg CPU usage > and some kind of interrupt issue. When I was using the nvidia driver, > CPU usage by Xorg was around 30-40%! Now I'm on the OSS nv driver and > it's about 15-20% (think that's for 1 core only). Doesn't seem that > much but maybe it's a timing issue related to interrupts. > > I'll have a play with latencytop in the next few days. Thanks again > for the help. I'm getting closer to sorting this out and if I do I'll > try to post it web-wide so googlers can find it. Just a thought, do you have any VIA chipsets on your motherboard? If you do, throw it away and buy another one. It'll save you hours of fruitlessly trying to find a software problem that doesn't exist. Don't ask me how I know this unless you want a rant... ;) Mark > > Cheers, Chris. > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss >
