On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:56:03 +0000 John Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've come across a strange problem that affects Ekiga. It usually > works well, but once in a while my calls are so choppy as to be > completely unusable. The strange behaviour is that if I start > another process that is CPU intensive, Ekiga works fine! > > So, I experience choppy calls, then run: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1M > > and the choppiness completely disappears. Kill dd and it reappears. > > I tend to get choppy calls for a whole session. Restarting Ekiga > doesn't help. > > I'm using Ubuntu Edgy on an i386 Sony Vaio laptop. I use suspend to > ram a lot, if that's any clue. > > So, I'm not sure if this is even a Ekiga bug. Any ideas anyone? That's the second time I hear such a report: choppy sound goes away on high CPU load (first report was on IRC). In your special case: Maybe the CPU is throttled? J. -- "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send." - J. B. Postel, master of the net. _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
