From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: u81ib6r2@umail.furryterror.org (Zygo Blaxell) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:02:22 +0000 Subject: Re: Laptop Sound? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org In article , Deirdre Saoirse wrote: >Thinking I might try something less dramatic than mp3s, I tried playing >CDs from the console, which works fine. However, I don't know if that's >going through the sound driver or what (I have no kernel sound support). Playing a CD usually happens using the sound card's analog mixer, not with the sound output. My guess is that your laptop is using power-saving features including slowing down the CPU, and the MP3's aren't being decompressed fast enough. But that's only a guess. -- Zygo Blaxell, Linux Engineer, Corel Corporation, zygob@corel.ca (work), zblaxell@furryterror.org (play). It's my opinion, I tell you! Mine! All MINE! Size of 'diff -Nurw [...] winehq corel' as of Mon Feb 22 11:14:00 EST 1999 Lines/files: In 2948 / 53, Out 29300 / 428, Both 31518 / 461