8 Oct
2003
8 Oct
'03
6:30 a.m.
jordan muscott <morsecode(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Hmm, I was dreading the problem could be here:
AOpen AX3S Pentium III Celeron Socket 370 133MHz 4x AGP ATX Motherboard.
Thats what it sais on the box anyway.
>
> Any IRQs blocked or not enabled? Can you at least reserve any of them?
>Which slots are shared, do you need the SCSI? What's mapped to 3, 5 and 7,
>etc? Why is nothing mapped to 3, 5 or 7?
Rick Taylor wrote:
Slackware 9.
PIII 866
alsa 0.9.7
Has anyone succesfully recorded via the spdif input on this card using
arecord? I'm getting lots of 'overuns' which result in jumps when I
playback the resulting file. I've just built a new kernel with low
latency but this has made no difference at all. For example:
[jordan@bootsy new]$ arecord -f dat -D spdif 909track.wav
Recording WAVE '909track.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000
Hz, Stereo
overrun!!! (at least 0.090 ms long)
overrun!!! (at least 0.030 ms long)
overrun!!! (at least 0.061 ms long)
overrun!!! (at least 0.030 ms long)
This doesn't look ideal to me either:
[jordan@bootsy jordan]$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 98023 XT-PIC timer
1: 1556 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
10: 108365 XT-PIC eth0
11: 14874 XT-PIC aic7xxx, ICE1712
12: 27245 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
15: 2 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
LOC: 97983
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
If I use the nvidia drivers for my graphics card then nvidia appears on
irq 11 as well. My bios doesn't look like it supports setting irqs, and
I tried switching the slots that my ethernet card (eth0) and my sound
card are plugged into but they still appear on the same irqs.
Any help or pointers would be much appreciated. Even if someone just
sais "no, it doens't work for me either", then at least I'll know that
I'm not the only person who has wasted money on this card :=(
:} Them great big cards is called "motherboards".
Does yours have any distinguishing features? ...Maybe a brand name or model
number?
Yeah I do need the scsi because my only hard drive is
plugged into it ;=)
Strangely enough... so's your sound card.
We'll assume that also means that you don't need the ide on 15. If you shut off
ide1, the serial and parallel ports {Soundblaster and PAS always use 5 {or 7}
and you can push {reserve} other {isa, unplug and play, etc...} stuff up to the
higher IRQs you may be able to clear up enough space for the Maudio card. {and
your hd} If there are other peripherals that aren't showing up and you don't
need them... turn them off.
{You don't really need a floppy if that's what the ide thing {I doubt it} is...
I've set up many systems using a cd to boot/rescue with. It's not ever been any
real problem.}
If your bios really doesn't offer you the option to switch things around you
can always do it in software. I've not run Slackware for 7-8 years... frankly
I've forgotten how. None of the Systems {Suse, Redhat, Mandrake, Debian and lots
of variants and versions {currently, I'm banging my head against the wall with
HURD {it's actually fairly simple... I've just not had the time to read all
of the set up stuff.}} I've run in the past 5 or so years has "given me the
option".
Slackware's really tough and it's not going to get a lot easier. It's made
for
folk that *really* know linux/unix, etc... {and masochists}. My suggestion would
be to either buy or download Redhat, set it up and save the configs for the rest
of the time you own the board. Alternately, {and probably better} there's a very
small Debian distribution that's really easy and pretty sure fire. {Somewhere at
http://www.debian.org } It's ~15o megs and gives you an entire system.
Everything else you can set up over the 'net with dselect or apt-get.
{Stick to stable for a couple months}
I have no idea why nothing is mapped to 3, 5, or 7. I
don't think any
IRQs are blocked or not enabled, but I've never done any fiddling with
IRQs before so I could be missing something. I don't remember my bios
offering me the ability to change anything here... I'll have another
look next time I boot though.