Re: sound breaks up - scheduler prob?

[Andrew Sharp]

Did you try unmasking the interrupt on your hard drive (hdparm)?  Of course
this isn't an issue if it's SCSI, but for some reason, at least still as of
2.2.15, the default for the driver is to have it masked, to not use 32 bit
xfers, and to not use multi-sector xfers, even though modern drives and
chipsets would suggest that these could safely be the defaults these days.
IMHO.  Andre?  These would all help this problem, unless this is some "other"
bug.

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Jon Evans wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've got an ABIT BP6 SMP system running the latest (ac11) kernel but I'm
> still finding that xmms sound output breaks up when doing fairly simple
> things like scrolling pages in Netscape, or moving windows around the
> desktop. The xmms binary is setuid root and "use realtime priority when
> available" is selected in the options.  The effect is observed both when
> using the esd output plugin and the oss output plugin.
>
> The output even breaks up if I renice the xmms process to -20 priority!
>
> I first noticed this a few months back but assumed that it was because
> someone was tweaking with the scheduler.  I thought I'd report it as it
> still seems to be broken.
>
> Jon.
>
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