Re: Linux Sound Issues
Hmm, I think hdparm did the trick...
turin:~# hdparm -t /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
Timing buffered disk reads: 8 MB in 3.76 seconds
= 2.13 MB/sec
turin:~# hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
turin:~# hdparm -t /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
Timing buffered disk reads: 106 MB in 3.01 seconds
= 35.22 MB/sec
I thought of messing around with hdparm, never
realized how easy it was. So far I haven't noticed any
audio skipping when playing movies in kplayer or
playing mp3s while running find and apt-cache search
at the same time and didn't hear any skipping.
Although I've heard that enabling DMA on VIA686B could
cause data corruption and that's why it's disabled by
default, I guess I'm willing to take the risk. A very
big thank you to everyone that helped me.
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