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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

insmod soundcore

> insert -f au8830.o
insmod not insert, of course

> http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/2.4.31/au8830.o
> http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl
> - since it also works with 2.2.X kernels.
>
> Said to work with the gameport and midi port and timidity etc.
>
> The website says one of its drawbacks is a 16K buffer.  It works offline
> with mplayer, but online even with 320K cache, at 24K or slower internet
> radio stations, it cuts out every few seconds for a few seconds and then
> stalls completely.  Can this be fixed somehow?  All my cards cut out a lot
> but this seems to be worse than the others.

My neighbor says I should have at least 100K buffer so I gave up on this 
card, which also sounds terrible with mplayer and a DVD. (Playing movies 
with some other program was another drawback listed for the driver).

I found a trident card (also PCI).

insmod soundcore
insmod ac97_codec
insmod trident

Nice loud card, good sound.  Same problem cutting out with streaming 
audio.  Connected at 45333kbit/sec.

Played a DVD briefly with mplayer then stopped and complained that my 
system was too SLOW.  It is 1.2GHz.  A 500MHz with es1371 works.

Most likely cause broken/buggy audio driver and I should try setting 
-autosync 30.

I did.  Sound on DVDs works perfectly now.  !!!!!

This did not fix streaming audio.  I think it works better on my other 
computers.  On this one after 24 sec I started losing a few sec at a time 
despite 320K buffer.  Could it be some problem with interrupts?  PCI video 
card in slot 1 shares interrupt with (empty) slot 5.  Sound in slot 2 has 
interrupt 12.  Modem on com2 IRQ3.  Do I need to specify dma (like I do 
with ISA cards)?  This happens with all three sound cards I tried.

The NZ station cut out 50% of the time starting in 2 seconds.
24 sec for a 32K station after which every 2 sec I lose 2 sec then mplayer 
exits.

Could it be the external modem?  I have no empty slots after adding USB 
and sound.  I tried two external modems.

Might something else (besides hard drive, onboard USB, and onboard sound) 
be damaged on the motherboard which can't handle streaming audio well 
enough?

I can buy LPs for 10 cents but internet radio uses less electricity.

Sindi