From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:42:07 +1100 Message-Id: <199903102242.JAA08373@tango.anu.edu.au> From: Paul Mackerras To: hub@point-barre.fr CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-reply-to: <19990310152621.H896@giordino.point-barre.fr> (message from Hubert Figuiere on Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:26:21 +0100) Subject: Re: Sound drops Reply-to: Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au References: <19990310152621.H896@giordino.point-barre.fr> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hubert Figuiere wrote: > 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. One thing to try is `hdparm -u1 /dev/hda'. That sets the IDE driver to allow interrupts during transfers to/from your hard disk. I don't know if it will help in your particular case, but it's worth trying. Paul. [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]