also sprach Graham/Aniartia <linux.i386@genasis.freeserve.co.uk> [2002.01.07.0231 +0100]: > Well it might not be the CPU that's at fault, what's your soundcard & mobo, > even with the most sorted latency on VIA chipsets I'm still getting problems > with sound cards @ high CPU loads (specialy when building & compressing). 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 730 Host (rev 02) it's basically one of the cheap SiS 630 boards. > This can be agrvated by soundcards with problems (creative SB Lives being a > prime candidate)... I was havin' a fight with an SB Live on a dual 1900XP > system 512Mb DDR & a mix of 7k2 rpm IDE & 10k0 rpm SCSI drives. well, it's got the 00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02) which is a piece of crap, so it wouldn't surprise me. and it's got alsa in between, because the kernel driver can't play sound... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck linux is like a wigwam. no gates, no windoze, and an apache inside.
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