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Re: dmasound hangs when changing cpu speed



On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 10:54, Michael Flaig wrote: 
> 
> first I´m using 2.4.22-pre4-ben0 with dmasound on my Powerbook G4 1GHz.
> (yes I should update, i will, soon...)

Indeed, as others including myself don't seem to experience the same
problem.

> If I change the cpu frequency often while playing music, the dmasound
> hangs until I reboot. Killing all processes that use /dev/dsp doesn´t
> help. I cannot unload the dmasound modules, because the kernel says
> they´re still in use ...
> 
> if you change your cpu frequency not often, this isn´t a big problem.
> but, when using cpudyn you can´t listen to the full length of 1 song.
> if you do not use the machine you have a good chance to hear more
> than one song :)

FWIW, cpudyn seemed to do many unnecessary clock speed changes here
using the default settings. I'm using 10 for interval now, and I stop
cpudyn when AC is connected and let it run at full steam.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer   \  Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast  \     http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



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