On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:47:16PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: > > apt-get install bumprace.
apt-cache show bumprace | grep Maintainer > The reason I mention it as a test app is because it's relatively small > and easy to install, don't require 3D X accelleration (or much video > at all) and it it's a good example of an app that sounds absolutely > awful on my i386/sid Athlon64. > > Basically, when the CPU load goes above 1 (which will happen quite > easily with bumprace) audio seems to just go to pieces. Stuttering > and dropping out, but also speeding up and changing volume erratically. > Happens with all apps which put the CPU under load, AFAICT, and a > few that don't, too, but most simple single-thread audio producing > applications like saytime will sound just fine. I think I heard something like this before, not sure which package. But it only happened with 2.6 kernels, I think it was reassigned to the kernel, I don't see it in the bumprace or sdl-mixer bugreports, maybe you can dig it up... Christian
