Re: [Alsa-user] Pb with simultaneous SATA and ALSA I/O

From: Lee Revell
Date: Thu Oct 05 2006 - 17:12:33 EST


On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 23:01 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > This is going to be a problem with the SATA driver not ALSA. I've heard
> > that some motherboards do evil stuff like implementing legacy drive
> > access modes using SMM which would cause dropouts without xruns
> > reported.
>
> Why do I hear distortion with PCM on SPDIF output and no distortion at
> all on analog front output ? (both with the SB Live card)

No idea. Maybe SPDIF playback is more sensitive to timing glitches.
But the problem must be in the SATA driver not the emu10k1 driver.

Lee

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