From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Laurence Darby <ldarby@sdf-eu.org>
Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: vga kills the audio NO MORE !!!
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 16:19:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1116101982.9141.35.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0505141920320.23428@droog.sdf-eu.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
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2005-05-14 20:12 vga kills the audio NO MORE !!! Laurence Darby
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