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Subject: gnome-cd plays intermitent sounds
From: carlosescutia () gmail ! com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Carlos_Escutia_Ch=E1vez?=)
Date: 2004-11-04 21:46:27
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On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 22:20:00 +0100, Petri Pennanen <suvarin at home.se> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 11:22 -0600, Carlos Escutia Ch?vez wrote:
>
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I've just reinstalled ubuntu hoping to solve a problem with gnome-cd,
> > with no success: when I try to play a disc, it plays, but with sound
> > skips every second ( ! ). I first suspected a malfunctioning cdrom
> > unit, but it plays well in XP. Then I thought I had screwed my
> > installation by installing some non-ubuntu packages, so I did the
> > reinstall. No luck :(. I even tried stopping the famd daemon, just in
> > case it was monitoring the disc every second (the hd monitoring led
> > keeps blinking).
>
> This problem only occurs with audio CD:s? No problems playing sound
> files from the hard drive?
>
> > Strangely, it had happened before, when I had Debian + xfce. I have
> > had Red Hat 9, Fedora 2 & Gentoo installed before in this laptop,
> > without any (gnome-cd) problem.
> >
> > Hope someone points me in the right direction
>
> Not sure it is the right direction, but I'm thinking it might be a DMA
> issue. Check this by running
>
> hdparm /dev/hdc
>
> If "using dma = 0 (off)" you can try setting it on:
>
> sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
>
> Does it work now?
>
> If not the root to your problem might be an IRQ conflict. I don't know
> how to debug that, but others will.
>
> - Petri
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Yes, it only happens with audio CDs, and (forgot to mention before)
with gnome-cd: It plays well with grip, but I dont like grip (crashes
a lot) . Mp3 and radio streams from rhythmbox work well also.
dma in /dev/hdc was off, but after turning it on, sound is still bad,
skipping every second.
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carlos at portatil ~ $ hdparm /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument
IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 0 (off)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument
carlos at portatil ~ $ sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb
Password:
/dev/hdb:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
carlos at portatil ~ $ hdparm /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument
IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument
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