On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:57:58PM +0100, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> I doubt the PCI bus itself is noisy.  But your sound card could
> very well be picking up noise from other parts of the computer.
> It's a very hostile environment for analog electronics.
> 
> 	-- Lennart

That's pretty much what I meant, just phrased in a better manner :-)

So, on that note... is there anything I can do about it? Switch back to the
auvia onboard sound, and hope that it eventually gets better support? That's
what I had to do with the last machine to have this SB Live! in it (a Duron
1ghz) (although, I doubt it's the fault of the SB Live!... though it does
puzzle me that nothing like this ever happened in my p3 650 with an ISA SB64.
That's why I suspected something on the PCI bus.)

As for noise from other parts of the computer... well, I'm sure there is
plenty of that, with eight fans and five HD's :-\

> 
> Sean Davis wrote:
> >I have no idea what's causing this, but I'm experiencing what I can best
> >describe as "noise" coming over the PCI bus. At least, that's my guess. For
> >example, it's happening under the following circumstances:
> >
> >root is on wd0a (SATA, onboard viaide)
> >anoncvs mirror is on wd1a (SATA, onboard viaide)
> >music is on wd2a (ATA100, onboard viaide)
> >
> >sound card is a PCI SB Live! 5.1. I have an onboard auvia, but for various
> >reasons (such as support for it being even worse than support for emuxki), 
> >I
> >don't use it.
> >
> >When I was playing .flac's from a directory on wd2a, and did an rm -rf of
> >the anoncvs mirror, the music started getting distorted. Not skipping, but
> >getting staticy.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >