Hey guys,
I've found that playback of music on my laptop has this horrible,
horrible tendency to "skip" (by which I mean that the music stops for
some fraction of a second) extremely frequently. This has only been
occurring since Ubuntu's -generic kernels came in (I forget which
version that was).
It seems that it occurs whenever almost *anything* wants the CPU or disk
-- for example, my fetchmail and procmail setup interrupts music
playback whenever I receive mail.
Is there a quick fix I can apply to improve matters? My guess is that
userspace is being switched out, so having humungous kernel-side buffers
for my audio driver is something I'd consider here.
It's a HP nc4010, and lspci claims that the audio card is an "ALi
Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)". Ubuntu
Feisty. lsmod reports the following 'snd' modules loaded:
# lsmod | grep sn | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq
ac97_bus
snd
snd_ac97_codec
snd_ali5451
snd_mixer_oss
snd_page_alloc
snd_pcm
snd_pcm_oss
snd_rawmidi
snd_seq
snd_seq_device
snd_seq_dummy
snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_oss
snd_timer
soundcore
Thanks dudes,
James.
--
James Gregory -- http://codelore.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
