Paul,
> (...) that is skips whenever I do anything that requires CPU
> resources. I've tried recompiling the kernel to make it more
> efficient and I've tried using the latest drivers from Creative.
Mmh, it's probably just your IDE drive which is *not* accessed in DMA
mode. At least, that's what
Hmm, I think hdparm did the trick...
turin:~# hdparm -t /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
Timing buffered disk reads:8 MB in 3.76 seconds
= 2.13 MB/sec
turin:~# hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
using_dma= 1 (on)
turin:~# hdparm -t /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
Timing buffered dis
Paul Burkett wrote:
I've been having a helluva time to get sound working
decently in Linux. The issue isn't so much quality
(though I do notice a slight difference in quality
compared to Windows, nothing to complain about) but
that fact that is skips whenever I do anything that
requires CPU resourc
El sábado, 29 de noviembre de 2003, a las 16:37, Paul Burkett escribió:
> Should I buy a new sound card? Should I try ALSA? Any suggestions
Yes, you should try ALSA. You also can try recompiling your kernel
including one (or both) low latency patches. As you are running
unstable, you can easily do
Paul Burkett wrote:
I've been having a helluva time to get sound working
decently in Linux. The issue isn't so much quality
(though I do notice a slight difference in quality
compared to Windows, nothing to complain about) but
that fact that is skips whenever I do anything that
requires CPU resour
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 04:37:08PM -0800, Paul Burkett wrote:
> Could it
> be ext3 is just a lot slower than ext2 and can't
> handle it? Is there anything I can do to tweak this?
> Or should I move onto XFS or ResierFS? Should I buy a
> new sound card? Should I try ALSA? Any suggestions
> would b
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