[lug] i810 audio again

[Scott A. Herod]

I was hacking in the code and the rate sync by hand.  There is not
a way to do it externally; at least the block I was looking at does
not have anything in it that checks to see if it should run.

I've got your previous message and will look at some of the problems
that you mentioned.  The reason that I'm interested in this chip is
that a lot of the new, small boxes from at least HP and Compaq are
coming out with i810.  Since they have only 3 or less PCI slots, I'd
rather not take one for a decent audio card.   I'm already filling
two with a tuner and mpeg decode.  BTW, did you see that Nvidia 
announced that they're releasing a PVR card ( mpeg encode )?

howeljs at grimoire.stortek.com wrote:
> 
> Does it on 2.2.x, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.5
> 
> Is there some special voodoo you need to do to disable the rate sync?
> I've read the src/linux/Documentation stuff pretty thoroughly and
> haven't found anything about that. Only where you can specify a rate.
> 
> Scott A. Herod wrote:
> > What version of the kernel are you running?  It turned out that the
> > problem that I encountered was in the code which syncs the playback
> > rate of the i810 chip to the rate of the AC97 codec.  One of my
> > experiments while trying to stop the pop was to disable the rate
> > sycning and sure enough, Muddy Waters sounded like the Chipmunks.
> > Now that the pop is gone, it's actually working pretty well.
> >
> > The only Loki game that I've got here is Maelstrom.  Ok, it dies
> > and whines about a buggy audio driver.  Not sure why, I use
> > SDL_audio libs without any problem.
> >
> > Scott
> 
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