Re: Linux Sound Issues

From: John Peter (john.peter_at_netcabo.pt)
Date: 11/30/03

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    Paul Burkett wrote:

    >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.
    >
    >

    Hi, Paul

    I also have the same card, 1.3Ghz processor and ATA 100 disk
    and it does eventually hik up now and then...
    I'm ussing the OSS drivers.
    I think we have to fidlle with the priorities of the prog. processing sound.
    I use noatun.
    Still didn't have time to think about this subject but I think I'll give
    it a try.
    I'll post if anything comes out of this ...

    John 

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