Re: Sony Vaio SR33
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, p wrote:
> >
> > i've got the sony "picturebook" (pcg-c1xs) laptop. i luv the
> > "feel" and portability. ...very sexy, figuratively, not literally.
> >
> > the only thing _not_ "gnu/linux friendly" is "sound." i hear (sorry)
> > others have gotten it to work on their sonys, but mine has been a
> > "pita." (specifically, the card bus, sound, and usb controllers are
> > all on irq 9; and "sound" just doesn't like sharing an irq, from what
> > i can tell. what happens is that i get 2 seconds of sound that just
> > repeats, locking the box to the point of requiring a hard boot.)
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On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 08:17:43PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote:
> >
> this may be a stupid suggestion but it sounds more like a dma problem
> rather than an irq one. My soundcard will only loop sound if the dma's
> are wrong. Try dma=1 and dma=0 (or any other combination).
>
> good luck
>
> Alex
>
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are you using alsa or oss? i see, using alsaconf, how that is
accomplished; but with oss, how does one change the direct memory
access (dma) setting? (it if matters, i compiled kernel 2.4.0 and
put oss directly into the kernel.)
thx.
bentley taylor.
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