From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3988AE56.BBA10EFA@student.ethz.ch> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 01:27:18 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Iain Sandoe CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: Updated DMASOUND patches References: <200008021950.UAA23533@hyperion.valhalla.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Iain Sandoe wrote: > 2.4.0-test5 > > This is much more flaky **with identical code** there is no crashing (yet) > - but a strong tendency for almost any activity to cut off the sound. > opening the mixer control is a really good way of doing it. Once the panel > is open you can restart the sound and all is hunky-dory... but... I've noticed that 2.4.0-test4 is much more sluggish than any 2.2 kernel I've used. Turning on DMA for the HD (yep, didn't do it automatically) helps a bit, but not totally. > I guess I'm a little suspicious of the new wait-queue stuff (that's really > the only major change to the sound side). There's a whole new kernel around the sound driver ;) Michel -- The three Rs of Microsoft support: Retry, Reboot, Reinstall. ______________________________________________________________________________ Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86, Team *AMIGA*, AUGS ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/