Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm2

[Daniel Drake <dan@reactivated.net>]

I've been getting a couple of audio skips with 2.6.0-test9-mm2. Haven't heard a 
skip since test4 or so, so I'm assuming this is a result of the IO scheduler tweaks.

Here's how I can produce a skip:
Running X, general usage (e.g. couple of xterms, an emacs, maybe a 
mozilla-thunderbird)
I switch to the first virtual console with Ctrl+Alt+F1. I then switch back to X 
with Alt+F7. As X is redrawing the screen, the audio skips once.
This happens most of the time, but its easier to reproduce when i am compiling 
something, and also when I cycle through the virtual consoles before switching 
back to X.

System:
AMD XP2600+
nForce2 motherboard
512MB RAM
nvidia GeForce4 Ti4800

Audio being played through the intel8x0 alsa module.
I use the nvidia binary graphics driver with X.

XMMS 1.2.8
XFree 4.3.0

If theres any other info I can give, please tell me and I'll do my best to help out.

Andrew Morton wrote:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test9/2.6.0-test9-mm2/
> 
> 
> - Various random fixes.  Maybe about half of these are 2.6.0-worthy.
> 
> - Some improvements to the anticipatory IO scheduler and more readahead
>   tweaks should help some of those database benchmarks.
> 
>   The anticipatory scheduler is still a bit behind the deadline scheduler
>   in these random seeky loads - it most likely always will be.
> 
> - "A new driver for the ethernet interface of the NVIDIA nForce chipset,
>   licensed under GPL."
> 
>   Testing of this would be appreciated.  Send any reports to linux-kernel
>   or netdev@oss.sgi.com and Manfred will scoop them up, thanks.
> 
> 
> - I shall be offline for a couple of days.