Re: [Alsa-user] How to change the default timer used?

[Lee R. <rlr...@jo...>]

On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 16:33 +0000, Jeroen Nijhof wrote:
> Lee,
> 
> 
> > > How can I change the timer that alsa uses (including for
> > > the OSS drivers)?
> > > 
> > > I think I found the source of my problem: it seems that the kernel
> > > has turned the sound card IRQ off!! -
> > > dmesg says
> > > 
> > >     ...
> > >     'irq 3: nobody cared!'
> > >     ....
> > >     'Disabling IRQ #3'
> > 
> > This is a kernel bug, probably ACPI related, not an ALSA issue.  Please
> > report it on the kernel mailing list (include the complete dmesg output
> > not just those two lines).
> 
> I know it is a kernel bug (or a hardware bug/quirk, more likely).
> 
> But my question was:  can I work around it,
> by having ALSA use the system timer (class=0) for everything,
> rather than the audio card for timing (class=3)? And if so, how?

No, if the sound card IRQ is being disabled, there's no way to get sound
to work.

Lee