From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: vga kills the audio NO MORE !!! Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 16:19:42 -0400 Message-ID: <1116101982.9141.35.camel@mindpipe> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Laurence Darby Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 20:12 +0000, Laurence Darby wrote: > > I have a PCI trident cyberblade graphics chip, and if almost anything > happened on screen, the audio would squeal and squawk. I've fixed it for > this card. The doc at http://www.alsa-project.org/misc/vgakills.txt > basically says to put the accelerator command queue status check back in > to the graphics driver, which is what I've done, with some guess work > too... > > I think it slightly decreases performance, so the Xorg devs probably > wouldn't be interested, but as it increases audio quality, I guess this is > the place to post about it. If there are other lists you think may be > interested, feel free to forward it on. They should be interested. Not checking the FIFO status before writing to it is a bug. The via driver had the same bug, which was fixed after I reported it to the developers. Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click