What Is Yenta?

[RROY]

I'm having sound quality issues, my sound gets scratchy when I use my touchpad. So I ran cat /proc/interrupts to see if I had a conflict and this is my output



$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 29754963 XT-PIC-XT timer
1: 11318 XT-PIC-XT i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC-XT cascade
3: 2 XT-PIC-XT
4: 3 XT-PIC-XT
5: 10656029 XT-PIC-XT wifi0
7: 2 XT-PIC-XT parport0
8: 3 XT-PIC-XT rtc
9: 113705 XT-PIC-XT acpi
10: 1 XT-PIC-XT ohci_hcd:usb1, ohci_hcd:usb2, ehci_hcd:usb3, eth0, radeon@pci:0000:01:05.0
11: 939356 XT-PIC-XT yenta, yenta, ALI 5451
12: 4112042 XT-PIC-XT i8042
14: 527419 XT-PIC-XT ide0
NMI: 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 0 Local timer interrupts
RES: 0 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 0 function call interrupts
TLB: 0 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 Thermal event interrupts
SPU: 0 Spurious interrupts
ERR: 0
MIS: 0


I'm specifically looking for what the two yenta's are...

11: 939356 XT-PIC-XT yenta, yenta, ALI 5451

[sdennie]

I believe yenta is the driver (or subsystem?) for PCMCIA/CardBus. If you don't use it, you may be able to disable your PCMCIA/CardBus slot via BIOS.

[RROY]

Do you know if there's a way of changing the IRQ it uses, I have a feeling it's my touchpad...and it's interfering with sound playback.

This problem only seems to occur in ubuntu...if I install Fedora my sound is fine...and Windows doesn't have any problems either.