From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Deirdre Saoirse Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 21:16:27 +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 On 22 Feb 1999, Zygo Blaxell wrote: > 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. That's what I thought. > 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. I have that feature disabled in the BIOS however, so I know it's not that. _Deirdre * http://disclaimer.deirdre.org * http://www.deirdre.net "I would rather choose to have my leg bitten off than to buy NT" Rob Narberes, Information Systems Manager, DNA Plant Technologies Corp as quoted in (!) Computerworld