[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/08/2007 03:05:49 PM: > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:31 +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:27 +1000, James Gregory wrote: > > > 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). > > > > I'd check your disk is using dma; PIO disk IO is a great way to turn > > your laptop into a snail. > This might be way off, but I had intermittant freezing problems with the kernel using cpufreq ondemand governor. To see what govenor is used, try # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor
Try setting it to performance if its anything but. Cheers, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
