Re: Trident 4DWave NX

From: Trever Adams (trever_Adams@bigfoot.com)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 02:29:04 EST


Ollie Lho wrote:
>
> Trever Adams wrote:
> >
> > Works marvelously. After a few open/closes by say xmms or others
> > (especially if you are piping multiple things into the card), it starts
> > fuzzying for the first few seconds of play back. After a while it just
> > stops working (pure silence). I have had the fuzz happen as module and
> > compiled in. Havent yet experienced silence as compiled in (maybe
> > because I havent had it up that long).
> >
> > I am using the Hoontech implimentation. I am also using RedHat 6.1 with
> > all updates with kernel 2.3.40pre6.
> >
>
> Could you send me your /var/log/message ?? There are some bugs in dma buffer
> management which I am currently working on. The bug is difficult to be
> reproduce on our SiS 7018 chip so I need feedback from trident's user.
>
> The driver changed a lot since 2.3.39 but unfortunatly they are not
> getting in pre-2.3.40 patches. I will send out a new revision tomorrow.
>
> Ollie

These may not be all the errors. I haven't seen very many... many of
them didn't show up in the logs. The chip lockup ones are from mpg123
-Z -s *.mpg > /dev/dsp1 (dsp is sb16 with standard kernel OSS), or at
least some are.

Jan 18 23:20:19 aurora kernel: trident: write: chip lockup? dmasz 32768
fragsz 8192 count 32768 hwptr 0 swptr 0
Jan 18 23:20:21 aurora kernel: trident: write: chip lockup? dmasz 32768
fragsz 8192 count 32768 hwptr 16383 swptr 16383
Jan 18 23:21:04 aurora kernel: trident: write: chip lockup? dmasz 32768
fragsz 8192 count 32768 hwptr 0 swptr 0
Jan 18 23:21:06 aurora kernel: trident: write: chip lockup? dmasz 32768
fragsz 8192 count 32768 hwptr 16383 swptr 16383
Jan 19 11:39:37 aurora kernel: trident: drain_dac, dma timed out?
jiffies = 381865
Jan 19 13:33:39 aurora kernel: trident: drain_dac, dma timed out?
jiffies = 1066042
Jan 19 13:33:39 aurora kernel: trident: drain_dac, dma timed out?
jiffies = 1066044
Jan 19 14:00:08 aurora kernel: trident: write: chip lockup? dmasz 32768
fragsz 8192 count 32768 hwptr 0 swptr 0
Jan 19 14:00:10 aurora kernel: trident: write: chip lockup? dmasz 32768
fragsz 8192 count 32768 hwptr 16383 swptr 16383
Jan 19 15:09:27 aurora kernel: trident: write: chip lockup? dmasz 32768
fragsz 8192 count 32768 hwptr 0 swptr 0

Thank you for being interested in my report. I hope you all will
impliment the wavetable midi asap. Thank you for the great work. It is
nice to have CLEAN sound.

Trever

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