Re: [Alsa-user] VIA 8237 crackling sound

[Takashi I. <ti...@su...>]

At Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:57:07 +1300,
Michael Curtis wrote:
> 
> > I guess it's a bug in BIOS or something similar like that.
> > Typically, the wrong DMA pointer is returned, which confuses the
> > driver.
> ...if that was the case, surely there would also be a problem with RealPlayer?

Not always.  It might work only with a certain configuration of
buffer/period sizes and sample rates.

> > Didn't you get any kernel warnings if the skip occurs?
> No.  I get
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64
> when the driver starts.  The 0000:00:11.5 device is the sound card (from 
> lspci).  I wonder if the latency is too low or something.

Did you compile the driver with debug option?


Takashi