Linux Sound Issues

From: Paul Burkett (xpaul_burkettx_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/30/03

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    I've been having a helluva time to get sound working
    decently in Linux. The issue isn't so much quality
    (though I do notice a slight difference in quality
    compared to Windows, nothing to complain about) but
    that fact that is skips whenever I do anything that
    requires CPU resources. I've tried recompiling the
    kernel to make it more efficient and I've tried using
    the latest drivers from Creative. It doesn't skip as
    much but there are times when it does skip when
    playing an mp3. Usually it happens when I'm running
    any apt tools. Now I don't know if it is so much the
    fault of the CPU (an AMD Tbird 1GHz) or the soundcard
    (a POS SB Live), but I do notice kjournald running in
    the background when I check it out using top. Could it
    be ext3 is just a lot slower than ext2 and can't
    handle it? Is there anything I can do to tweak this?
    Or should I move onto XFS or ResierFS? Should I buy a
    new sound card? Should I try ALSA? Any suggestions
    would be helpful. Thanks again guys and gals.

    System Info:

    AMD 1GHz Thunderbird
    512MB of RAM
    Running KDE
    Ext3 Filesystem
    Kernel 2.4.22 compiled for i686
    Debian Unstable
    40GB Maxtor 740DX HDD Dedicated to Linux
    SB Live! Sound Card (OEM)
    Via686B Chipset (Abit KT7A-RAID MB)

    AFAIK I didn't have this problem in Mandrake 8 but
    that was so long ago.

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    - Paul Burkett

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