[vox-tech] Skipping sound

[ME]

Sorry, I went off on a tangent...

If you are using an IDE based disk, and have a secondary drive (hdc or
hdd) from which reading is taking place, the intensive IRQ shring could
cause problems. If using a parallel based Zip drive or USB drive from
which to play the sound file, consider copying the sound file to a
mounteddir that is on mounted partition that is part of /dev/hda
somewhere.

Also, are you into swap extensively when you hear the choppy sound?
And what drive has your swap?

-ME


Peter Jay Salzman said:

> heh.  wasn't quite a request, but thanks anyway.   :)   it was a "your
> video card is using irq 15.  make sure it's not conflicting with
> anything".   :)
>
> this is the kind of thing i can't seem to remember.  i google for it
> whenever i need it.    i should throw it up on my web page just so i
> don't bother google with the same question over and over.   :)
>
> thanks,
> pete
>
>
> begin ME <dugan@passwall.com>
>> Peter Jay Salzman said:
>> > i don't know my irq numbers.  is 15 usually assigned to something like
>> > the timer or usb?
>>
>> On Systems with IDE based drives, 15 is often secondary IDE.
>>
>> 0=cpu/timer *
>> 1=keyboard *
>> 2=Cascade to upper 8 irq *
>> 3=/dev/ttyS1
>> 4=/dev/ttyS0
>> 5=often free or sound card or extra par port or serial port
>> 6=Floppy Drive Controller #
>> 7=parallel port #1 #
>> 8=clock/real time clock *
>> 9=cascade from 2, effectively "same as "2" but not quite the same *
>> 10= often free or sound or usb or firewire or...
>> 11= often free or sound or usb or firewire or...
>> 12=ps2 mouse if you have one #
>> 13=Math Co *
>> 14=Primary IDE or SCSI on some systems #
>> 15=Secondary IDE #
>>
>> Of course with the newer IRQ stuff much is not "set" and unchangeable.
>> The ones I listed above ith a trailing "*" are pretty much set without
>> you
>> given choice.
>> The ones with trailing "#" often use that IRQ resource when present and
>> these are often unchangable, but not always.
>> The serial ports are usually set as above, butcan often be altered.
>>
>> The above describes older x86 based PC IRQ.
>>
>> With newer systems and PCI with resource sharing and the virtual mapping
>> of "extra IRQ" you can find caes where your x86 based linux system will
>> report IRQ higher than 15 when you cat /proc/interrupts
>>
>> Enjoy,
>> -ME
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