Re: seti@home and es1371

2001-02-09 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
You might also want to run setiathome with the -nice option...for instance i *always* run it with -nice 19 so that it lays in the background consuming otherwise idle cycles. anything wanting cpu time will then take it from seti. On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Alex Deucher wrote: > Rainer, > > I'm

Re: seti@home and es1371

2001-02-01 Thread Rainer Wiener
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, LA Walsh wrote: > Now that's just plain weird. Doesn't sound like a cpu thing. Hmmm. Have your > run "vmstat 5" - is there disk activity when the sound drops? How about 'top' > does it show anything interesting? You could try upping the priority of freeamp, but > that wo

Re: seti@home and es1371

2001-02-01 Thread Rainer Wiener
Hi LA! On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, LA Walsh wrote: > Try "freeamp". It uses darn close to 0 CPU and may not be affected by setiathome. > 2nd -- renice setiathome to '19' -- you only want it to use up 'background' cputime > anyway I also try freeamp with no success. Seti is also running with nic

Re: seti@home and es1371

2001-02-01 Thread Rainer Wiener
Hi Robert-Jan! On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, Robert-Jan Oosterloo wrote: > I had the same problem. I have an Athlon 1000 Mhz on an Asus A7V board > with a Soundblaster 128 PCI which also uses the es1371 driver. > Yesterday I upgraded to kernel 2.4.1 and now my sound is okay. I also have 2.4.1 running bu

Re: seti@home and es1371

2001-01-31 Thread Robert-Jan Oosterloo
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Rainer Wiener wrote: > I hope you can help me. I have a problem with my on board soundcard and > seti. I have a Gigabyte GA-7ZX Creative 5880 sound chip. I use the kernel > driver es1371 and it works goot. But when I run seti@home I got some noise > in my sound when I play mp

Re: seti@home and es1371

2001-01-31 Thread Joerg Dietrich
> I hope you can help me. I have a problem with my on board soundcard and > seti. I have a Gigabyte GA-7ZX Creative 5880 sound chip. I use the kernel This board doesn't by any chance have a VIA KT133 chip set? > driver es1371 and it works goot. But when I run seti@home I got some noise > in my s

Re: seti@home and es1371

2001-01-31 Thread LA Walsh
Try "freeamp". It uses darn close to 0 CPU and may not be affected by setiathome. 2nd -- renice setiathome to '19' -- you only want it to use up 'background' cputime anyway Rainer Wiener wrote: > > Hi, > > I hope you can help me. I have a problem with my on board soundcard and > seti

Re: seti@home and es1371

2001-01-31 Thread Alex Deucher
Rainer, I'm not too familiar with the ct5880 sound chip that comes built onto motherboards. I do know that alot of the AC'97 compliant built in sound chips tend to let the host cpu do most of the processing involved in playing the sound. That being said, even if you have a dedicated sou

seti@home and es1371

2001-01-31 Thread Rainer Wiener
Hi, I hope you can help me. I have a problem with my on board soundcard and seti. I have a Gigabyte GA-7ZX Creative 5880 sound chip. I use the kernel driver es1371 and it works goot. But when I run seti@home I got some noise in my sound when I play mp3 and other sound. But it is not every time 10