[gobolinux-users] ALSA stutter solved!

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 1/26/07, Paul Dann <giddie at christian.net> wrote:
> I am stating the following for posterity, as I looked *everywhere* and
> was shocked that the solution was so simple:
>
> If you are using ALSA and your whole sound mix stutters when you scroll
> your browser or anything similar, it may be due to an old graphics card
> "trick".  Try adding the following line to xorg.conf in the "Device"
> section:
>
> Option     "pci_retry"
>
> Apparently, this disables a hack on some PCI VGA cards that attempts to
> speed up transfer speeds by hijacking the PCI bus.  Any devices on the
> bus may suffer, including sound cards.  This completely fixed all my
> sound problems, with no noticeable impact to X :)
>
> I got this from here:   http://www.slinkp.com/LiLAQ/VideoCard

Cool! This might fit fine in our wiki, too, if you have the time to
copy this information over there.

Cheers,

-- 
Lucas
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