"Beep" is breaking my nerves! Help! - SOLVED

ormi · Last edited by ormi on Mon Mar 24, 2003 8:05 am; edited 1 time in total

There is conflict between NIC (rlt8139) and soundcard (SbLive!). First time I noticed this problem when I was using vanilla-kernel-2.4.19 with acpi. With acpi disabled there was no problems (if I remember right, it was at least ½ years ago). Now I'm using gaming-sources (2.4.20) and conflict exists (acpi is disabled). Same problem with gentoo-sources-2.4.20 and the newest vanilla-sources. I also tried APIC, but the result was same.

Only kernel which working is gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r10, but I don't want to use it because wine is super slow with this kernel. I tried also gentoo-sources-2.4.20 with exactly same configuration as in 2.4.19-r10, but still I'm getting "beep" sound when I'm playing rtcw for e.g. I also get many beep-sounds when I'm listening music and emerging sync at the same time. What could cause this problem?

Edit: Oh.. my system: AXP1600+, Epox 8kha+, MSI GF3Ti500, SBLive! 5.1, Allied Telesyn (RTL8139) & Hauppauge WinTV GO!

Edit2: Hey! What's this?

qwkbrnfox · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 5:32 pm Post subject:

The first thing to try is to move the sound card to a different PCI slot. Check out Daniel Robbins' excellent article on interrupts. You may be able to fool around with bios too (in article).

TripKnot · Apprentice Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 213

I get some stupid beep problem too. The solution: mute the system speaker. I use smixer loaded from local.start to do this.

ormi · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 8:08 am Post subject:

Thank you, qwkbrnfox, for posting that link. The problem was pci latency. I added followin lines (from the Daniel Robbins article) to /etc/conf.d/local.start

Languid_Heap · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Posts: 14

You have earned my eternal gratitude! I have searched for a solution to this problem, on and off for probably 5 months.

THANK YOU!

Selkie · n00b Joined: 15 Jul 2002 Posts: 27

it's working!!

i cant belive it, sound & browsing!!!

THANK YOU!!!

*creates bookmarks & saves pages localy*

iarwain · Apprentice Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 253

Hi!

I know this is an old thread but i've had exactly the same problem as you. The system locks up and a long beep in the sound card. I have followed Daniel Robbins guide, and i've also added those setpci lines to /etc/conf.d/local.start. Yes, it works, but there's a problem. Before setpci commands:

hdparm -t /devhde:

iarwain · Apprentice Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 253

I've solved it setting back the latency to 0 in this 2:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
and
0000:00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22).
I have 2 HD, and now hdparm results are normal. I hope the system is stable. It is good to set them back to 0?

iarwain · Apprentice Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 253

5 minutes after the last post the system crashed, and again the BEEP.

Help me please.

iarwain · Apprentice Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 253

Solved! No more crashes

I have just changed the sound card's latency to 64 (32 was default).
Thanks!

penguinland · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 50 Location: California

THANK YOU so much!!!! This is exactly what I needed to get sound to work.
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