From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 13 09:55:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED96D16A41C for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:55:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iqgrande@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95D7243D48 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:55:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iqgrande@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 16so304265nzp for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 02:55:08 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=D0bEe9s0M4pNNBkxc0FN7jOV5jWh5J6tT5a9XTYEqdYfo5a3PEJjirtTo0yhmENhOKAf74XBwO+t0MgQfsQ7s/qC+BRkCcmxcOHOQojxzCiV6IDL8QpnHyubOmSwjX5c+biTL+Okz4bf1nZwyZb+B3+wUawIfGFKl08GcftTcDo= Received: by 10.36.34.2 with SMTP id h2mr2512404nzh; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 02:55:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.4? ([24.30.63.114]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 38sm2845468nza.2005.06.13.02.55.07; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 02:55:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42AD57F2.9080905@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 05:54:58 -0400 From: "Anthony M. Agelastos" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050611) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kostas Blekos References: <20050613071639.GA23896@pythagoras.physics.upatras.gr> In-Reply-To: <20050613071639.GA23896@pythagoras.physics.upatras.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'Interrupt storm' results non-stopable noise X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:55:09 -0000 Kostas Blekos wrote: > Hi, > > In some cases, when two audio events coincide (usually in gaim), >I get the following message: > >Interrupt storm detected on "irq9: pcm0 uhci2"; throttling interrupt source > >and then there is a continuous noise that I can not stop in anyway. >Does anybody knows how to resolve this (*stop* the noise)? > >Thanks. >(please cc: me any replies) > > > Hello. I had a similar problem with interrupt storms when I was setting up my printer. The fix for this involved me modifying /boot/device.hints . To see what I did and if it can help you or not, please read the entire thread entitled Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C from the archives shown http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2005-April/thread.html#84195 I hope this helps. -Anthony