On Feb 16, 2008 11:42 PM, James Stone <jamesmstone@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 04:30:36PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 21:27 +0000, James Stone wrote:
> > am not sure about your distro but you may also be affected by
> > "nptl hell", in which case I would suggest changing distro:
>
> NPTL Hell affects only 2.4 kernels or very very early 2.6 kernels. It is
> not and has never been an issue in distributions using kernels from the
> last 2 years or so.
>

Thanks for the heads up.. This is clearly not an issue then..

The other thing I forgot to note was the pci latency settings. On
my system I have been using a script I got from this mailing
list (was it yours Paul?):

#!/bin/sh

case $1 in
start)
# "open up" the PCI bus by allowing fairly long bursts for
all devices, increasing performance
setpci -v -s "*:*.*" latency_timer=b0

# maximise latency for SBLive!, thus allowing
# more data per PCI transfer and minimizing xfuns
setpci -v -s 01:0a.0 latency_timer=ff
esac

exit 0

obviously requiring altering 01:0a.0 to match the results of lspci -v for the
soundcard in your system.

James