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Hi Mandrakers,
Q. I have been trying to get Mandrake 7.2 to play mp3 files (with either
xmms or kaiman) without suffering noticeable hiccups as I open other windows
or even delete an email from KMail but I have yet been unable to do so. I
have adjusted the Sound Server settings to:
Start aRts soundserver on KDE startup
Run soundserver with realtime priority
Response time: Don't care (large!)
My system is fairly robust with the main multimedia components of:
PII-266MHz 440BX
256MB PC100 SDRAM
6.8GB EIDE 5400RPM drive
SB Live! 1024
I have tuned my hard disk with hdparm to the following results:
[root@mypc /root]# hdparm -tT /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.76 seconds = 72.73 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.66 seconds = 11.31 MB/sec
Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions on improving this would be greatly
appreciated. I have tried sparse window managers (like XFCE) and it to
suffers the hiccup.
Running the newest KDE (2.0.1-1 rpms) if that helps.
Thanks in advance. Cheers.
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