Jarrett Lee wrote: > Also, in X have you noticed that in X the video "hangs" for a half > second occasionally? When I run X, no matter what display manager I > use, the whole screen will lock up for a half second every few seconds. > When running XMMS the sound went right along with the lock ups and > paused every few seconds. So far this has been my only complaint about > running Linux on my laptop. I'm hoping that somebody else has had a > similar problem and will know what to do.
I a similar problem until I used hdparm to enable 32-bit disk I/O and enabled DMA for my hard drive. Once I did that the problem went away. Sound plays smooth and no X hiccups.
