Basically, when the system becomes busy, arts sometimes starts buzzing during sound playback (ie - lots of tiny chopping effects during actual sound playback, not when there is no sound playing. The buzzing is louder when the sound is louder). But when the system load is back to normal, the sound buzzing continues. If the system becomes loaded again later, usually aRts is kicked out of "make sounds buzz" mode again. And so on.
Does anyone know why this "chopping/buzzing" effect remains after the period of system load? Is there a way for software to detect that this is happening so that the service can be restarted? DMA is intentionally not enabled on my system. (It is a dev&testing system for software running on many PCs, some of which lock up when DMA is enabled with hdparm) I'm running (according to dselect) : libarts 2.2.2-14 kdebase 3.1.2-1 The debian kernel version: 2.4.20-bf2.4 Most of the sound played is through XMMS 1.2.7 Any ideas? David.
