[mythtv-users] Firewire on a combo backend/frontend

[John P Poet]

On 7/31/06, John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Unfortunately, I now had an audio problem.  The sound would drop-out
> for a fraction of a second, every couple of seconds.  This only
> happened if I was recording via firewire at the same time.  I figured
> my firewire port and my sound card must be sharing an interrupt, but a
> quick look at the motherboard manual disproved that theory.  I then
> check the latencies of those two devices (lspci) and discovered that
> both were at 32.  After adjusting both up to 64 (setpci), my audio
> problem is also solved.

Hmmm.  Unfortunately, adjusting the latency has not solved the problem
after all.  It has reduced it, but it is still there.

I guess I will try a different PCI slot for the sound card next.

John