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From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko@ursulin.net>
Subject: Re: [2.6.33-rc3] HDA works in polling mode
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:53:51 +0000
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On Tuesday 12 Jan 2010 08:50:26 Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Sat, 9 Jan 2010 10:22:17 +0000,
> 
> Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a AMD 785G motherboard where there is a worrying situation logged
> > by ALSA drivers. Sound nevertheless works.
> >
> > lspci:
> > 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
> >
> > dmesg:
> > HDA Intel 0000:01:05.1: PCI INT B disabled
> > HDA Intel 0000:00:14.2: PCI INT A disabled
> > HDA Intel 0000:00:14.2: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> > HDA Intel 0000:01:05.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
> > HDA Intel 0000:01:05.1: irq 28 for MSI/MSI-X
> > HDA Intel 0000:01:05.1: setting latency timer to 64
> > hda-intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode: last
> > cmd=0x000f0000
> >
> > I tried position_fix=0, 1 and 2 with no difference. I also tried
> > enable_msi=0 to make it use IO-APIC interrupt. Then this error is not
> > displayed, sound works, but again no interrupts are generated at least
> > count is not growing in /proc/interrupts.
> >
> > Please tell me what else I can try and what debugging info you need.
> 
> The switching to polling mode itself isn't a big problem at all.
> This can be usually ignored.  If you have any other issues wrt sound
> quality, just ignore this.

Hi,

Yes sounds quality seems OK. So there are no performance issues with polling? 
Messages as this usually raise attention so if it is normal I suggest changing 
the message to something less alarming.

Thanks,

Tvrtko