hmm, I haven't had those kinds of sound problems. I'm sitting with my laptop (Dell c600) using the drivers that came with Mandrake 8.2, running at 600mhz (battery save mode). I play MP3's while surfing the web and compiling some applications in the background (mostly rpm src rebuilds). No problems. Doesn't skip a beat. Using Ximian Gnome with xmms. Believe it is using the OSS sound system in xmms.
Modules loaded: ac97_codec soundcore maestro3 On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 09:35, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > Hi All, > > On Windows, if you play an MPEG and kick off your compiler everything is > generally okay. Rarely will you hear even a skip. On linux it totally > hoses it (still) and generally you get static etc. > > Generally I use plaympeg to play my mp3s. Is there something better? > > And why does this happen so much more frequently? (Looking for a > technical explanation) -- I don't know jack about programming sound > stuff but it would seem that by now this should be up to near the same > quality. Is it the player, is it the linux sound system? > > Hopefully when I blow my tax refund on the new dual athlon motherbaord > it won't happen anymore anyhow ;-) > > -andy > -- > http://www.superlinksoftware.com - software solutions for business > http://jakarta.apache.org/poi - Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound Document in > Java > http://krysalis.sourceforge.net/centipede - the best build/project > structure > a guy/gal could have! - Make Ant simple on complex Projects! > The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to > vote. > -Ambassador Kosh > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
