From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:25:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:25:35 -0400 Received: from [24.254.60.16] ([24.254.60.16]:62116 "EHLO femail26.sdc1.sfba.home.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:25:30 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Nicholas Knight Reply-To: tegeran@home.com To: Adrian Cox , tegeran@home.com Subject: Re: via82cxxx_audio locking problems Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 05:24:38 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch, Thomas Sailer , jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3BA9AB43.C26366BF@scs.ch> <01092004333500.00182@c779218-a> <3BA9DBED.9020401@humboldt.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3BA9DBED.9020401@humboldt.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01092005243800.01369@c779218-a> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 20 September 2001 05:07 am, Adrian Cox wrote: > Nicholas Knight wrote: > > thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou > > Adrian Cox was working on this after I raised the issue on the list, > > but nobody got anywhere. All we knew was that there were temporary > > lockups appearing when anything was using the mixer. > > This is the right answer. The reason some of us didn't see a problem > may actually be quite simple: we were using very small buffers in xmms. > Once I increased the xmms buffer size the problem became visible. Interesting, I just experimented with it, bringing down the buffers to 200ms (low as they'll go) and pre-buffer % to 0, does seem to have an effect, but it doesn't "fix" the problem for me... Should I just conclude that the tolerance for this is higher on some boards/chips than on others, and that once THIS problem is fixed, it'll go away and I can happily use my volume control again?