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From: Jon <jcb@niluge.net>
To: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Cc: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>,
	Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@icequake.net>,
	alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Unexpected hw_pointer value
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 00:33:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031006223344.GA589@zeus.homenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0310061419200.1641@pnote.perex-int.cz>

On Monday 06 October, 2003 � 03:36:32PM +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> We added these sanity checks for debugging purposes, but if they occur too
> much, there's something bad with driver or hardware.
> 
> Basically, we have only information from last interrupt position and the
> actual position in the ring buffer. We need to determine the new
> "absolute" position. To detect the wrap point, we compute the delta value
> for the new and old position and if delta is greater than buffer_size / 2,
> we correct the new position by adding buffer_size. Otherwise we take value
> as error, because we ask driver to acknowledge interrupts after
> period_size not before. Note that some interrupt might be lost.
> 
> 						Jaroslav

my hardware seems really bad : ES1983S Maestro-3i on a dell c600.
i experience lots of hardware freeze (bios does not respond) caused the
driver/card with oss or alsa.

i'm kind of desperate with my sound card :(


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-06 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-04 21:12 Unexpected hw_pointer value Jon
2003-10-04 21:58 ` Ryan Underwood
2003-10-05 14:26   ` Giuliano Pochini
2003-10-06 13:36     ` Jaroslav Kysela
2003-10-06 22:33       ` Jon [this message]
2003-10-06 11:07   ` Takashi Iwai
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-07 23:05 Giuliano Pochini

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