I'm at a loss. I'm fairly sure its come kind of conflict because when I change the sound drive from hardware to software then to safe mode, I notice that the distortions get less and less frequent. What happens is especially during fire fights the sound skips like a bad cd and the game skips right along with it. I could accept it was my processor except I went up in power, performance shouldn't have gone down.

I dumped just about everything I could think of in logs, cat /proc/*info etc down below. Hopefully there is something there you can see that I am missing. If you need anything else, please don't hesitate to ask.

Thanks

d4m
Brandon


Distro: Slack 9.1
bash-2.05b$ uname -a
Quote:

Linux nexus001 2.6.7 #2 SMP Thu Aug 5 21:26:24 EDT 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux


bash-2.05b$ alsamixer -h
Quote:

AlsaMixer v1.0.5
Usage: alsamixer [-h] [-c <card: 0...7 or id>] [-D <mixer device>] [-g] [-s]


bash-2.05b$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
Quote:

processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2700+
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 2166.479
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 4243.45


cat /proc/pci
Quote:

PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 128).
Master Capable. Latency=8.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8000000 [0xe9ffffff].
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge (rev 0).
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12.
Bus 0, device 12, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 4).
IRQ 20.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20.
I/O at 0xd000 [0xd03f].
Bus 0, device 12, function 1:
Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 4).
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xd400 [0xd407].
Bus 0, device 12, function 2:
FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 4).
IRQ 21.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=4.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec004000 [0xec0047ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec000000 [0xec003fff].
Bus 0, device 15, function 0:
IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 6).
IRQ 20.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xd800 [0xd80f].
Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [K8T800 South] (rev 0). Bus 0, device 18, function 0:
Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 120).
IRQ 23.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=8.
I/O at 0xec00 [0xecff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec006000 [0xec0060ff].
Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV35 [GeForce FX 5900] (rev 161).
IRQ 16.
Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea000000 [0xeaffffff].
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe7ffffff].


ArmyOps.log
Quote:

Init: ALAudio: Default audio device is "'((sampling-rate 44100) (device '(native))"
Init: ALAudio: Opening default audio device...
Init: AL_VENDOR : J. Valenzuela
Init: AL_RENDERER : Software
Init: AL_VERSION : 0.0.7
Init: Device supports: AL
Init: ALAudio: subsystem initialized.
ScriptLog: AGP_GameInfo::Login()


bash-2.05b# lspci
Quote:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 80)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device b198
00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
00:0c.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 04)00:0c.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3227
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7Cool
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0331 (rev a1)
bash-2.05b#


bash-2.05b# lsmod
Quote:

Module Size Used by
nvidia 4819424 -
snd_pcm_oss 51724 -
snd_mixer_oss 18436 -
snd_emu10k1 71212 -
snd_rawmidi 23232 -
snd_pcm 93056 -
snd_timer 25060 -
snd_seq_device 7528 -
snd_ac97_codec 71688 -
snd_page_alloc 10924 -
snd_util_mem 3812 -
snd_hwdep 8448 -
snd 54052 -
soundcore 7104 -
bash-2.05b#


bash-2.05b# dmesg
Quote:

Linux version 2.6.7 (root@nexus001) (gcc version 3.2.3) #2 SMP Thu Aug 5 21:26:24 EDT 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f4960
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 126960 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.2 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 KT600 ) @ 0x000f6400
ACPI: RSDT (v001 KT600 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3000
ACPI: FADT (v001 KT600 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3040
ACPI: MADT (v001 KT600 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff7f80
ACPI: DSDT (v001 KT600 AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 6:8 APIC version 16
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] global_irq_base[0x0])
IOAPIC[0]: Assigned apic_id 2
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 3, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 dfl dfl)
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux2.6.7 ro root=345
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c0458000 soft=c0450000
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes)
Detected 2166.479 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Memory: 515372k/524224k available (2289k kernel code, 8088k reserved, 687k data, 400k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 4243.45 BogoMIPS
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000020
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2700+ stepping 01
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.34 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 1 msecs.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Total of 1 processors activated (4243.45 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-16, 2-17, 2-18, 2-19, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23 not connected.
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 2166.0088 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 333.0244 MHz.
Brought up 1 CPUs
CPU0: online
domain 0: span 01
groups: 01
domain 1: span 01
groups: 01
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb260, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 *10 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] (IRQs 20) *15, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] (IRQs *21), disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] (IRQs *22), disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] (IRQs *23)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
00:00:08[A] -> 2-20 -> IRQ 20 level low
00:00:08[B] -> 2-21 -> IRQ 21 level low
00:00:08[C] -> 2-22 -> IRQ 22 level low
00:00:08[D] -> 2-23 -> IRQ 23 level low
00:00:0a[A] -> 2-18 -> IRQ 18 level low
00:00:0a[B] -> 2-19 -> IRQ 19 level low
00:00:0a[C] -> 2-16 -> IRQ 16 level low
00:00:0a[D] -> 2-17 -> IRQ 17 level low
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] disabled and referenced, BIOS bug.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] enabled at IRQ 21
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] disabled and referenced, BIOS bug.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] BIOS reported IRQ 15, using IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] enabled at IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] disabled and referenced, BIOS bug.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] enabled at IRQ 22
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] enabled at IRQ 23
number of MP IRQ sources: 15.
number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.
testing the IO APIC.......................
IO APIC #2......
.... register #00: 02000000
....... : physical APIC id: 02
....... : Delivery Type: 0
....... : LTS : 0
.... register #01: 00178003
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : PRQ implemented: 1
....... : IO APIC version: 0003
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
02 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31
03 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41
04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
05 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
09 001 01 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 71
0a 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
0b 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
0d 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99
0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1
10 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D9
11 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 E1
12 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C9
13 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D1
14 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A9
15 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B1
16 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B9
17 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C1
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ0 -> 0:2
IRQ1 -> 0:1
IRQ3 -> 0:3
IRQ4 -> 0:4
IRQ5 -> 0:5
IRQ6 -> 0:6
IRQ7 -> 0:7
IRQ8 -> 0:8
IRQ9 -> 0:9
IRQ10 -> 0:10
IRQ11 -> 0:11
IRQ12 -> 0:12
IRQ13 -> 0:13
IRQ14 -> 0:14
IRQ15 -> 0:15
IRQ16 -> 0:16
IRQ17 -> 0:17
IRQ18 -> 0:18
IRQ19 -> 0:19
IRQ20 -> 0:20
IRQ21 -> 0:21
IRQ22 -> 0:22
IRQ23 -> 0:23
.................................... done.
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1091790974.359:0): initialized
udf: registering filesystem
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (28 C)
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
Using anticipatory io scheduler
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.20-2.6 May-23-2004 Written by Donald Becker
eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xec00, 00:50:2c:a5:e6:60, IRQ 23.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 41e1.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hda: Maxtor 52049U4, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Maxtor 6Y060L0, ATA DISK drive
hdc: LITE-ON LTR-16102B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: CREATIVEDVD8400E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 40020624 sectors (20490 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39703/16/63
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 120103200 sectors (61492 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 >
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[21] MMIO=[ec004000-ec0047ff] Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: PS2++ Logitech Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
oprofile: using NMI interrupt.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4095 buckets, 32760 max) - 300 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ipt_recent v0.3.1: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>.
arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
ReiserFS: hdb5: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hdb5: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hdb5: journal params: device hdb5, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hdb5: checking transaction log (hdb5)
ReiserFS: hdb5: Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 400k freed
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00023c009100197f]
Adding 781192k swap on /dev/hdb2. Priority:-1 extents:1
ReiserFS: hdb3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hdb3: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hdb3: journal params: device hdb3, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hdb3: checking transaction log (hdb3)
ReiserFS: hdb3: Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS: hdb6: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hdb6: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hdb6: journal params: device hdb6, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hdb6: checking transaction log (hdb6)
ReiserFS: hdb6: Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS: hdb7: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hdb7: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hdb7: journal params: device hdb7, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hdb7: checking transaction log (hdb7)
ReiserFS: hdb7: Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS: hdb8: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hdb8: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hdb8: journal params: device hdb8, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hdb8: checking transaction log (hdb8)
ReiserFS: hdb8: Using r5 hash to sort names
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 41e1.
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6106 Wed Jun 23 08:14:01 PDT 2004
atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly.
atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly.
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