From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Deirdre Saoirse Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 01:10:58 +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 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 , > 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 > _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