On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:42:01AM +0100, devis wrote:
> Sean Davis wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:41:18 +0100, Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@xtrmntr.org> 
> >wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:32:04AM -0500, Brian Rose wrote:
> >>   
> >>
> >>>The best way to solve this is to get a better sound card. Look for a
> >>>lot of electrolytic caps (little "trash cans") on the board. Some of
> >>>the _really_ nice boards pull their power from the power supply and
> >>>not the PCI bus power rails.
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>or get a USB sound card.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Since I've never shopped for a uaudio device before... do you think
> >this: http://tinyurl.com/5262a will work well enough?
> >
> > 
> >
> As a personnal experience i would mention as well that specifically 
> Creative cards do not play well with shared interrupts pci slots. I 
> couldn't see anybody else mentionning this on the thread and sorry if i 
> missed it.
> My experiments are on one of my system, i run a triple sound card system 
> that has a SBLive!5.1 pci ( emu10k1 chip ), a zoltrix pro6 ( cmipci-ch6 
> chip ), and an als4000 pci. There are 5 pci slots on the machine. I 
> always had interferences with other devices ( background noise from 
> speakers on hard disks, click from mouse moves and all other annoyances 
> mentionned ) and i agree the pc environment is hostile however i decide 
> to get rid of the problem once and for all, put out my motherboard 
> documentation and realised the irq sharing of the pci slots was 
> described as so:
> slot 1 and 3 : shared
> slot 2 and 6 : shared
> slot 4 : not shared
> slot 5: not shared
> 
> Note that yours may vary.
> 
> I connected the creative sblive in the slot 4. Since ALL GONE. Perfect, 
> no more clicks and rattles. I also have read on DVD mailing lists that 
> creative cards do not play nice when on a shared pci slot.
> 
> Hope this is relevant.

Hmm... I'd try it, but unfortunately the documentation for my motherboard
(ASRock K7V88-RAID) doesn't even mention irq sharing. Although, as far as I
can tell, nothing else is using irq 3, the irq the SB Live! 5.1 is using.

-Sean