Re: Laptop hardware compatibility questions

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:45:47 +0000, Andy Davison wrote:

On Monday 20 March 2006 19:10, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

I have not found one. I went nearly mad chasing this down -- merging info
from all over the place. You should start by seeing what your current
kernel config is:

grep APIC /boot/config
or
zgrep APIC /proc/config.gz

might show you.

The second one gives:

CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_APIC_OFF=y
CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y

which looks to me like APIC is installed but turned off. Thinking about his
I don't think I'll be able to set up APIC since when I installed Suse it
wouldn't let me install with APIC (it locked up). When I re-compiled the
kernel I didn't change any of the APIC stuff in menuconfig but I think it
night have locked up had I done so. I might redo it just to see what
happens but I suspect the motherboard won't like it.

APIC or no APIC, you have as good as I can get. Clicks only with certain
programs that use only OSS. I can't help much more. Audacity is
the worst. I find I can reduce the problem a bit by running (as root):

echo 'audacity 0 65536' >/proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss

If this does help, put it in rc.local so you get it automatically on boot
but I found the best solution was to compile a beta version of audacity
that can use an ALSA device for output!

--
Ben.
.

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