You all know how I hate to take time away from the usual chatter with an actual problem, but here goes :-)
Has anyone else noticed bad sound choppiness since installing/upgrading to 9.2? I have two systems with this problem, one using the stock 2.4.22-21 kernel and AC97 sound and one using -mm with i810 sound, both using ARTS. artswrapper is suid, "run sound server with realtime priority" is checked in kcontrol (note that I actually use XFce4, not KDE). XMMS is of course the app where I notice the problem (since GAIM is the only other program that is allowed to make noise and it doesn't make much). On stock-21/AC97 desktop, the "use realtime priority" flag is set, and true to the warning, I've experienced a system lockup under heavy load when XMMS was playing. On the 21-mm/i810 system, XMMS's "use realtime priority" flag is not checked (system lockups are more annoying on a laptop when there's no network accessibility). I don't recall if the AC97 desktop is on OSS or ALSA, but the i810 laptop is on OSS since the 9.2 upgrade; it was rock-solid and generally perfect on ALSA for 9.1, but with 9.2 ALSA sounds were drowned in static and frequently played at the wrong frequency. Any ideas? I'm sure I don't need to mention how annoying choppy music and system lockups are, especially when I'm the only hardcore Linux fanatic^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huser in the building. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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