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Subject: Re: Sound driver still looping, though much better. 
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Let me think about this because I was assuming that the problem
was an incorrect bit register setting on the gus pnp which for
sure guspnp6 has the loop on underflow bit set off.

I suspect that the problem now is on dmabuf.c on DMAbuf_outputintr.

	Tnks,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Gene W Homicki :
> Hey all,
> 
> 	I installed the latest sound driver a couple of days ago
> (guspnp6), and ts been _much_ better.  I have gotten the looping twice
> though. (Its usually after afw hours of intermittant use...like
> listening to STS-80 mcasts B-).
> 
> Aside from the looping, everything is much better.  Playback from vat
> is clear without small dropouts every few seconds (which it was doing
> before).
> 
> If there's anything I can do to help track this looping problem down,
> let me know.  Amancio, I'd even be willing to ship my GUS PnP Pro out
> to you to see if you can reproduce the problem.  Thanks!
> 
> 
> 					--Gene
> 
> 
> -- 
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