23 Apr
2003
23 Apr
'03
11:14 p.m.
Yeah, you can get an sblive value oem for only $28, but could it also be
an old disk or something? Also it could be your video card, I had that
problem with an ati rage card that was causing horrible x runs
http://www.brianredfern.org
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, rob fell wrote:
Hi Alex
i see that both your mouse (?!) and your network
card seem to have
higher priority than your IDE channels (harddisks).
i would advice you to try without the network card and not to move
your mouse =)
believe it or not i did try an "ifconfig eth0 down" to see if it would improve
the situation! (i did say i was getting desperate).
and what Mark Knecht said about period size for
the SB soundcards is
also slightly touched here: http://www.djcj.org/LAU/jack/
your 128 setting might be too small. did you try with 256 or 512?
looks like no-one is using anything as cruddy as a SB128 PCI anymore (and with
good reason).
when Mark suggested that the card might not be man-enough for the job i
realised that my internal model of how a soundcard works might be a little
naive - i suspect it has more than a lump of DP ram and some counters :)
i set the buffersize smaller to try to act as a crude filter to make my awk
script simpler - though this neglects the effect on the card itself of
running at a higher rate.
the most success so far with the testing seems to be at 1024 - though large
file copies causes massive xruns at any rate (BTW: how large would a 'large'
file be?).
i can't decide whether to gamble on the purchase of a decent card and hope
this all goes away, or whether to read the alsa driver code for the card to
see if i can work out just how bad the card really is :(
and ofcourse... good luck.
looks like i may need it - and some more spare time. thanks.
R