On 7/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Allan Wilson</b> <<a href="mailto:allanwilson@gmail.com">allanwilson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><span class="e" id="q_10cc7fb7efe03bf2_0">On 7/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">John P Poet</b> <<a href="mailto:jppoet@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jppoet@gmail.com
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On 7/31/06, John P Poet <<a href="mailto:jppoet@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jppoet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><snip><br>> Unfortunately, I now had an audio problem. The sound would drop-out
<br>> for a fraction of a second, every couple of seconds. This only
<br>> happened if I was recording via firewire at the same time. I figured<br>> my firewire port and my sound card must be sharing an interrupt, but a<br>> quick look at the motherboard manual disproved that theory. I then
<br>> check the latencies of those two devices (lspci) and discovered that<br>> both were at 32. After adjusting both up to 64 (setpci), my audio<br>> problem is also solved.<br><br>Hmmm. Unfortunately, adjusting the latency has not solved the problem
<br>after all. It has reduced it, but it is still there.<br><br>I guess I will try a different PCI slot for the sound card next.<br><br>John<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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<br>Attached is my sa3250ch.c file. You will probably have to update lines 32 and 33 to match your box and this one has Steve's patch built in it. If it helps you out post back to the list and I will just post the code. Don't want to send an attachment to the whole list.
<br></div><div><span class="sg"><br>Allan<br>
</span></div><br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>I took a look at my look at my latency settings and my audio card was set to 0. I read on the wiki how to change that but I'm not having any luck. I used:<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<font size="1">sudo setpci -v -s 00:1f.5 latency_timer=40</font><br></div><br>and lspci -v still showed me<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="1">0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC
</font><br><font size="1">'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)</font><br><font size="1"> Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. P4P800 Mainboard</font><br><font size="1"> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
</font><br><font size="1"> I/O ports at e800 [size=256]</font><br><font size="1"> I/O ports at ee80 [size=64]</font><br><font size="1"> Memory at f7fff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]</font><br>
</div><br>Am I running the command wrong. I thought I would try this before the patch. Thanks for the idea on this I had not run across it before and it explains why my audio has been so bad when other things are going on.
<br><br>Allan<br>