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Re: sound



Matan Ziv-Av writes:
 > 
 > On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Erez Doron wrote:
 > 
 > > I wanted to record sound at CD quality (44100hz Stereo 16 bit),
 > > I'm using SB16PnP.
 > > 
 > > The problem is that my linux box does not keep the pace and it records
 > > the sounds while skipping some parts of it, which is very anoying.
 > 
 > Try unmasking interrupts ( # hdparm -u 1 /dev/hda ), see hdparm(8).

This is a very good suggestion, assuming it doesn't cause MASSIVE
FILESYSTEM CORRUPTION!

Also you might try recompiling the kernel with the maximum size sound
buffers allowed.  This *won't* cause massive filesystem corruption.

-- 
Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
abel@netvision.net.il


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