[CLUE-Tech] SB-Live latency issues (yuck)

[Jef Barnhart]

This may be some of the problem. 

http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/index.html

In this article they are saying that VIA does not implement the PCI standard correctly. They, the writers of the article, are saying that disk transfers are running less than the best possible.

The article would be a good read for anybody interested in PCI and disk interaction.

Jef

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 14:23:01 -0700
Dave Price <davep at kinaole.org> wrote:

> gang,
> 
> After tolerating pathetic performance from a SB Live (emu10k1) sound
> card for a LONG time under kernel 2.2.19, I finally got around to
> dropping a (cheap) ensoniq 5880 pci card into the same box, and
> configuring drivers for both cards as modules under kernel 2.4.14 and
> 2.4.16 (.16 with and without low-latency patches).
> 
> To my dismay, the ensoniq card has NO dropout problems at all, where the
> SB Live has horrible dropouts when playing mp3 files (mpg123).  The
> dropouts occur under light load, and can be triggered by switching
> workspaces or moving a window in blackbox.  The ensoniq card is rock
> solid even when web browsing or downloading LARGE files to the same
> drive as the mp3 files that are playing.
> 
> Sadly, the SB Live card work(ed) great under windoze, but i no longer
> run windoze on this box.
> 
> Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced PCI sound card that works well
> under linux, and has good recording and playback quality ('near
> audiophile')? ... It seems as thought the emu10k1 has a checkered
> past in the open source world, and the picture does not seems to be
> looking any brighter.
> 
> aloha,
> dave
> 
> 
> 
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