Re: Sound trouble

[Ron Rademaker <debian@virtualbuilding.nl>]

I compiled a new kernel:

hdparm -d /dev/hd?

/dev/hda:
 using_dma    =  1 (on)

/dev/hdb:
 using_dma    =  1 (on)

/dev/hdc:
 using_dma    =  1 (on)

However the problem persists...

On Friday 05 March 2004 05:21, Nicolas Kratz wrote:
> 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