Alessandro Polverini wrote:
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 11:01, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
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I used stock kernels on both 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0, and every audio app I use
(xmms, rhythmbox, gst-player) has this problem. I have tried with both
OSS sound output, ALSA oss emulation, and pure ALSA. pure ALSA gives the
best result up to now, but still unacceptably worse than with 7.3.
Hello Thomas,
I have the exact same problem.
My setup is an athlon XP2000+ and a sounblaster live, and the sound
quality is very low due to these bad droputs.
I've been told that it's possible to solve the problem by installing
ALSA, but I've not yet tryied it, an official package from Red Hat would
be very welcome :)
If there is a way to solve that (very annoying) problem without
replacing the entire sound system I would be glad to know it.
Bye,
Alex
(Reposting, since it's probably an audio app priority issue)
Yes, X now runs with a nice of -10 (why? deadlocks? Mike Harris would know ...)
If the Xserver takes too long, audio can easily be interupted.
Try using renice on xmms (as root):
renice -15 <pid_of_xmms>
You can also (as root):
nice -15 xmms
But xmms now runs as root. With renice, it still belongs to the user.
If you're using esd, it should be renice'd as well. Even if X were running
with nice 0, it's still good practice to elevate the priority of the
realtime audio processes to avoid skips.
Does anyone have a nice way to do this without popping in & out of root?
Cheers,
-Bob Arendt
