[lug] RH 7.2 Sound problem

[Jonathan Briggs]

If you're having problems with sound skipping, you should try a 2.4.18 
kernel with the preempt and O(1) scheduler patches.  That's what I'm 
running, and I can compile kernels and flip my virtual desktops as much 
as I want while running XMMS and sound never skips.  This is a 433 MHz 
Celeron, so it isn't due to the beefy hardware.  I did have to fiddle 
with nice values to make this really work.  I reniced XMMS and ESD to -19.

Those two patches are Good Stuff (tm).

Jeffery D. Collins wrote:

>I agree with that, especially in the presence of other CPU intensive
>activities.
>Tech support claimed that the W2K digital sound actually sounds better than
>the analog sound routed from the CDROM to the sound card.  I'm not sure I
>tell the difference if put to the test...
>
>--
>Jeffery Collins (http://www.boulder.net/~jcollins)
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <rm at fabula.de>
>To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
>Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:02 AM
>Subject: Re: [lug] RH 7.2 Sound problem
>
>
>>On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:45:51AM -0700, Jonathan Briggs wrote:
>>
>>>I don't know of any nifty graphical players, but I believe that cdda2wav
>>>could be used to extract the digital audio.  You could then pipe that
>>>into sox or another player.
>>>
>>... and of course that would still make me wounder: why would you want
>>to pipe all audio data through your system when you could could use the
>>CD-palyer-sound card shortcut? Esp. when considering that the linux kernel
>>is anything _but_ sound-app friendly (horrible latencies etc.).
>>
>>  Ralf
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