Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jul 2004 01:16:05 +0200 | From | Florian Schmidt <> | Subject | Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch |
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On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:25:07 +1200 Andrew McGregor <andrew@indranet.co.nz> wrote:
> It is a PCI bus issue. You simply don't have enough PCI bus cycles > available to do what you want to do. The resource you're running out of is > bus bandwidth, and there's nothing to be done about it, other than remove > the PCI gfx card from the system. > > If you get another dualhead AGP graphics card (anything will do), the > problem should go away. We have a developer who does lowlatency > multichannel sound stuff on a machine with a Matrox G450 dualhead card no > problem. I expect my own system (Radeon 9800 Pro and M-Audio 1010LT audio) > would be fine dualhead too, although I only run it singlehead at the > moment. The 1010LT is 10 channels in and out of 24-bit 96kHz audio and > works great down to 1.5ms buffers, so it is no small bus load itself.
Hi,
thanks for the advice. I have tried some more pci cards and a very slow Virge 64 or something actually reduced the problem. Not completely though. I think i'll get me one of those G450 dual head cards..
Florian Schmidt
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