Re: via82cxxx_audio - bad latency

From: Nils Philippsen (nils@fht-esslingen.de)
Date: Wed Dec 13 2000 - 06:18:33 EST

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Paul Jakma wrote:

> hi,
>
> i think somethings gone wrong with via82cxxx_audio. Playing anything
> through it seems to cause massive latency in apps like xmms, esd,
> asmixer, etc.. anything to do with playing or mixer levels suddenly
> takes a minute or more to respond.

Same here. Kernel is test12-pre8 and board is an Epox 8KTA2 (VIA KT133
chipset). The funny thing is that audio itself doesnt get blocked, just XMMS'
GUI.

> the via is sharing an interrupt, though normally the buslogic is not
> being used. (the interrupt sharing has been there a lot longer than
> this problem)
>
> i don't have the /proc/driver/via.... files that the docs mention.

I will take a look into this when I'm at home (at the offending machine).

Nils 

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