[plug] Bogus Sound Card Problems

[Phil Steege]

Here is an old definition from :
http://faq.oreillynet.com/linux/FAQ_12_102.shtm

``BogoMips'' is a contraction of ``Bogus MIPS.'' MIPS stands for (depending
who you listen to) Millions of Instructions per Second, or Meaningless
Indication of Processor Speed.

The number printed at boot time is the result of a kernel timing
calibration, used for very short delay loops by some device drivers.

As a very rough guide, the BogoMips rating for your machine will be
approximately:

     386SX              clock * 0.14
     386DX              clock * 0.18
     486Cyrix/IBM       clock * 0.33
     486SX/DX/DX2       clock * 0.50
     586                clock * 0.39

If the number is wildly lower, you may have the Turbo button or CPU speed
set incorrectly, or have some kind of caching problem (as described in
``When I add more memory, the system slows to a crawl.'')
For values people have seen with other, rarer, chips, see the BogoMips
Mini-HOWTO,  at sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/docs/howto/mini/BogoMips/.

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: bburns at erggroup.com <bburns at erggroup.com>
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Date: Friday, 4 August 2000 2:17
Subject: Re: [plug] Bogus Sound Card Problems


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>G'day Pluggers,
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>First a question:  What is a Bogomip - specifically, how is it calculated
and
>what is it meant to represent?  It seemed to jump a whole heap (5 times)
after
>installing a later kernel on the same machine.  Is it Bogus?
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>es1371 problems:  Got mine working last night..  First of all, I upgraded
my
>Kernel 2.2.14-15 to 2.2.15-4.  Secondly, I used the sox program "rec" to
record,
>and I had to play with the mixer using aumixer.  Up the Record and OGain
levels
>- and set the record line to microphone, line or volume - depending on what
you
>want.  So the problem, may have been the mixer, or the module version  You
may
>have other problems too ;)
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>
>That'll do for now,
>Cheers,
>Ben
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