From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 12:15:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 12:14:58 -0500 Received: from mail.pha.ha-vel.cz ([195.39.72.3]:13316 "HELO mail.pha.ha-vel.cz") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 12:14:43 -0500 Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 18:14:41 +0100 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Edward Stempel Cc: linux-kernel mailinglist Subject: Re: DMA conflicts with soundcard for ide driver via82cxxx Message-ID: <20020101181441.C30290@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from eazstempel@cal009001.student.utwente.nl on Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 05:10:43PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 05:10:43PM +0100, Edward Stempel wrote: > Excellent! That solved my problem. What exactly did you have to change? It might be worth to include the changing of the latency setting in the kernel. > > Thankx > > Edward > > > > > Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:15:05 +0100 > From: Vojtech Pavlik > To: Edward Stempel > Cc: linux-kernel mailinglist > Subject: Re: DMA conflicts with soundcard for ide driver via82cxxx > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:32:34AM +0100, Edward Stempel wrote: > > > I have an Asus a7v266 mother board and an Ensoniq sound card in it. > > The ide chipset is a VIA VT8233 that is capable of UDMA100. So I built a > > kernel with the es1371 sound driver and the via82cxxx ide driver > > configured in it. Actually I tried the kernel 2.4.17 first, and the latest > > I tried is 4.5.1 with the latest patch (patch-2.5.2-pre3) applied to it. > > I also tried the kernel 2.5.1 with Vojtech patch (via-3.33.diff from > > his email dated 2001-12-23 23:20:48) applied to it, with the same > > (negative) results. > > > > The good thing is that hdparm reports appr. 40 MB/sec when using DMA and > > about 6 MB/sec when not using DMA. > > Unfortunately using DMA for ide results in some ugly distortion of the > > sound from my soundcard whenever some IO to the disk is done. :(( > > > > I have assigned different interrupts to the PCI-cards (ide is > > on-board) and I even changed the sound card's PCI slot, so it shared > > its interrupt with another device (acpi instead of USB). It did not solve > > the problem. Because the problem only occurs when switching on using_dma > > on the ide driver, I think it is a DMA problem with the ide driver. It may > > be the es1371 driver as well off course, but I suspect it is the ide > > driver (or chipset). > > > > Reading the list archive from linux-kernel, I discovered there have been > > more problems with DMA using this chipset, but I did not find anyone > > having the same problem as I have now. > > > > Has someone also dealt with these problems, or can someone help me > > solving this problem? Please help! > > > > Below are some outputs using kernel 5.1 with patch-2.5.2-pre3. > > You may try changing the PCI latency settings on either the IDE > controller or the sound card. Other than that, I don't know how to help. > > -- > Vojtech Pavlik > SuSE Labs -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs