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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