On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 11:42:53AM -0400, Jacob Elder wrote:
> I'm running ALSA 0.9.0rc2 and 2.4.18 on an an Athlon XP1500+ with an Ensoniq
> 5880 AudioPCI (snd-ens1371). Ogg/MP3 playback is terrible during a kernel
> compile or when running SETI@home. The sound is slowed to about half speed
> and is very garbled. When the machine is mostly idle, playback is perfect.
> Both SETI@home and the kernel compile are run at normal priority.
> 
> Is this ALSA's fault?

Hmmm... does it get any better if you run your player with
root privileges and give it more priority?

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