From: Michel Lanners <mlan@cpu.lu>
To: hub@point-barre.fr
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Sound drops
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:11:38 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199903102111.WAA00669@piglet.cpu.lu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990310152621.H896@giordino.point-barre.fr>
On 10 Mar, this message from Hubert Figuiere echoed through cyberspace:
> I don't like to work in silence, so I usually play back a
> bunch of mp3 with xaudio under Linux PPC from my PowerBook.
>
> The problem is that I get a lot of sound drops like if the machine
> were "mono-tasking". I have never had this with PC hardware under Linux.
>
> It appears that those drops occurs when doing intensive graphics like
> a Netscape redrawing or a huge text scroll within an xterm. This happens
> with Xpmac or XFB_Dev.
>
> My question is: Is it a known bug of the sound drivers or is it a
> hardware limitation ?
IIRC, there was such a question on /. recently. You might ant to look
over there.
I would rather attribute this symptom to a problem in X, where the X
server is allowed to monopolize much of the machine for redrawing. The
fact the our current X servers (all those I tried, even Xpmac_mga
accelerated for my Matrox) eat _huge_ amounts of CPU for all blitting
operations like scrolling etc.
There seems to be work to do on the X side of things....
Michel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-03-10 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-10 14:26 Sound drops Hubert Figuiere
1999-03-10 18:41 ` Hollis R Blanchard
1999-03-10 21:11 ` Michel Lanners [this message]
1999-03-10 22:42 ` Paul Mackerras
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