Sound on the system briefly interrupts when kde4 switches windows with nvidia card

2012-01-15 Thread Yuri
I have kde4 on 8.2 with translucency windows effect enabled and nvidia graphics driver. Every time I switch an active window or maximize some window, sound played by mplayer interrupts for ~0.5 sec. Very annoying effect. Problem disappears when windows effects in kde4 are turned off. Is this

Re: Sound on the system briefly interrupts when kde4 switches windows with nvidia card

2012-01-15 Thread Dieter BSD
I have kde4 on 8.2 with translucency windows effect enabled and nvidia graphics driver. Every time I switch an active window or maximize some window, sound played by mplayer interrupts for ~0.5 sec. Very annoying effect. Problem disappears when windows effects in kde4 are turned off. Is this

Re: Sound on the system briefly interrupts when kde4 switches windows with nvidia card

2012-01-15 Thread Yuri
On 01/15/2012 15:34, Dieter BSD wrote: Some drivers do things like DELAY(big number) while interrupts are turned off. Very bad. Look through the source, maybe you can find it. We REALLY need a way to service one device without shutting off interrupts from other devices. NVidia driver is

Re: Sound on the system briefly interrupts when kde4 switches windows with nvidia card

2012-01-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Yuri y...@rawbw.com Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:21:19 -0800 Message-id: 4f136d7f.6070...@rawbw.com Yuri wrote: On 01/15/2012 15:34, Dieter BSD wrote: Some drivers do things like DELAY(big number) while interrupts are turned off. Very bad. Look

Re: Sound on the system briefly interrupts when kde4 switches windows with nvidia card

2012-01-15 Thread Yuri
On 01/15/2012 22:33, Julian H. Stacey wrote: This might help ? man mplayer: -priority -cache man rtprio as per mplayer(1) -priority only works on Windows and OS/2. -cache doesn't help, setting higher priority with rtprio doesn't help either. The only thing that helps is turning off

Re: Sound on the system briefly interrupts when kde4 switches windows with nvidia card

2012-01-15 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Monday 16 January 2012 01:21:19 Yuri wrote: On 01/15/2012 15:34, Dieter BSD wrote: Some drivers do things like DELAY(big number) while interrupts are turned off. Very bad. Look through the source, maybe you can find it. We REALLY need a way to service one device without shutting off