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SubjectRe: Cyrix MediaGXm & Audio Problems
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> When I try to record a sound, my computer just freezes totally, here's a
> example command:
>
> dd bs=8k count=4 </dev/audio > sample.au

Yes. I've never found out why the record side of the MediaGXm doesn't work.
That doesn't seem to be quite as SB compatible as it should.

> it's that easy to record sound to a file? hehe..no. its that easy to
> freeze the computer..

> if I try to insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
> Mar 15 11:44:27 neuron kernel: Too much work in interrupt on uart401
> (0x330). UART jabbering ??

That suggests your mpu isnt at 0x330 - basically the kernel sat listening
to it and reading from it but it never shut up.

> why was support for the MediaGX TSC removed from the kernel? I know it
> has a TSC, maybe its buggy (probably, knowing how cyrix is.).
> would it perform better using the TSC?

There appears to be some kind of TSC or timer flaw in the MediaGX that
was annoying Linux.

Alan


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