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Re: Sound trouble



On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 01:43:01PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> I do get some sounds, however it sounds horrible. The sound is skipping all 
> the time (whether I have a high load or almost nothing at all) with any 
> player (tried alsaplayer, xmms, mp3blaster). Any ideas what this could be? 

Last time I had to shoot this kind of trouble, it turned out DMA was not
activated. Try

# hdparm -d1 /dev/hd?

If that gives error messages, make sure you've got support for your IDE
chipset in the kernel.

HTH,
Nick

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