Re: 2.2.12: serial driver swapping characters?y

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:21:56 +0100 (BST)

> I only connect at 57600. Both machines have problem with sound skipping,
> the home machine much more so, when there is disk activity, or while
> changing desktops in X.

Sound will skip quite easily under load, or on PIO disks withou irq
unmasking enabled. Stalls on X desktop changes without heavy disk I/O normally
indicates a PCI chipset which isnt set to fairly share bus bandwidth amongst
masters. Check the bios

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