Re: Laptop Sound?

[Deirdre Saoirse <deirdre@deirdre.net>]

BTW, I wrote OpenSound and asked. Their response was that I probably had
my sound IRQ set to 7, which was, by default, the parallel port. This
would cause choppy sound.

Indeed, it was set to IRQ 7. I can't wait until everyone goes home so I
can test this hypothesis and see if this is, indeed, the issue. :)

On 22 Feb 1999, Zygo Blaxell wrote:

> In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.990221202945.6008I-100000@rockhopper.deirdre.org>,
> Deirdre Saoirse  <deirdre@deirdre.net> 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!
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