Search Members Help

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

Mini-ITX Boards Sale, Fanless BareBones Mini-ITX, Bootable 1G DSL USBs, 533MHz Fanless PC <-- SALE $200 each!
Get The Official Damn Small Linux Book. DSL Market , Great VPS hosting provided by Tektonic
 

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

 reply to topic new topic new poll
Topic: epia and dsl, fix for poor sound< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
matrulesok Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 29
Joined: June 2005
Posted: Sep. 09 2005,16:37 QUOTE
i seem to be suffering the issue covered in one of the topics in the mini-itx.xom faq sections:
Quote
3.2. What should I do if I have poor quality sound (pops, clicks and squeaks) - particularly when dragging or scrolling windows?

   This is caused by X writing blindly to the video card's instruction queue without checking to see if the queue is full. This will lock the PCI bus for about 40 - 50 audio cycles, causing pops, clicks and squeaks. The via82cxxx_audio driver is still somewhat fragile, so it is possible that some applications will fault ungracefully if the bus is disrupted badly enough (e.g. with SDL applications).
   You can make X play nicely with the PCI bus by adding
   Option "PciRetry" "true"
   to the "Device" stanza. Nasty pops and glitches will go away, and system stability will be much improved.


How do I go about implementing these fixes?
Many thanks for your help! :D
Back to top
Profile PM 
SaidinUnleashed Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 1428
Joined: Mar. 2004
Posted: Sep. 09 2005,21:39 QUOTE
With Kdrive, there is no xf86config-4, so I'm not sure this can be done.

But if you install Xfree86, you should be able to add that line to xf86config-4

-J.P.

--------------
They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. That's nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows.

Unleash the power of the TILDE~~~
Back to top
Profile PM AOL MSN YIM 
1 replies since Sep. 09 2005,16:37 < Next Oldest | Next Newest >

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

  		reply to topic new topic new poll
Quick Reply: epia and dsl

Do you wish to enable your signature for this post?
Do you wish to enable emoticons for this post?
Track this topic
View All Emoticons
View iB Code