[LAU] recommendations for usb sound card?

James Stone jamesmstone at gmail.com
Sun Mar 9 04:15:38 EDT 2008


On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 07:03:30PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 2:58 AM, James Stone <jamesmstone at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  I am wanting to use the eeepc for a mobile sound generation unit,
> >  but unfortunately the gfx card and sound card share the same
> >  interrupt.
> 
> This is not necessarily a showstopper.  At least in theory.  Do you
> have any empirical evidence that it's a problem for you?

xruns..

> 
> I would think that if you can disable the VSYNC interrupt from the gfx
> card, that it would be even less of a problem.  In my experience,
> VSYNC interrupts on Linux don't help anyway - I've compared the
> results with and without it enabled on both ATI and NVIDIA cards and
> the display tears horribly (esp. when playing movies or moving windows
> quickly) either way.

Sounds good. How do I disable that?

James



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