Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ot] rackmount
From: David Olofson (david_AT_gardena.net)
Date: Fri Dec 08 2000 - 04:49:26 EET
On Wednesday 06 December 2000 02:35, paul j botelho wrote:
[...]
> Douglas,
>
> Be careful with fast graphics cards (or slow ones for that
> matter). I have had experience with cards which hog the PCI bus
> and cause dropouts in sound. I have had this problem with an el
> cheapo built in card with the midiman delta 66. Although my
> experience is with a really slow graphics card I have read that
> fast cards can hog the bus as well.
Correct; even AGP cards can cause this kind of problems, although
it's more common with PCI cards. Extreme performance cards are more
likely to cause problems, but the higher quality ones usually let you
control their bus behavior from the driver.
//David
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