Re: 2.3.x sound problems

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 30 Nov 1999 12:58:29 +0000 (GMT)

> getting the sound dropouts with a quiet screen. Something as simple as
> a cron job kicking off in the background to download mail will trigger a
> sound pause. It seems as if there is no buffering of output where there
> was before.

The buffer allocations havent changed, but they do depend on the amount of
ISA DMA ram available when using many cards. So you can see less buffering
if there are no larger free ISA DMA blocks.

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