sam, have you tried with a different window manager? do you get the skipping around when you use mp3blaster/mpg123 under twm? that might be a good litmus test.
also, you run debian, right? see if the "X" process is un-niced. debian now asks you if you want to run X with a higher priority. try to renice X to 0. see if that helps the skipping around. pete begin Samuel Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If I have music playing and I move a window around, switch windows, or > scroll a window, the music stutters. I'm using XFree86 4.2.1 and ALSA > 0.9.0rc2 (defaults for Mandrake 9). > > This happens in any video mode I try, from 1024x768, 24bpp down to > 640x480, 8bpp, though the stuttering is worse in higher resolutions and > color depths. > > I've also tried switching between ALSA and OSS. It makes no difference. > > The video card is a Matrox Mystique with 4MB video RAM (MGA 1064SG). > The sound card is an onboard CM8738. > > I'd heard about problems like this years ago, having to do with the > video card drivers hogging the PCI bus for long periods of time. I > played with the option "PciRetry", found in the mga(4) man page. The > stuttering is the same whether this option is on or off. > > Google doesn't come up with any relevant results; I did find a whole > bunch of pages about a setting that goes in system.ini, but I don't have > one of those. =) > > > -- > Samuel Merritt > OpenPGP key is at http://meat.andcheese.org/~spam/spam_at_andcheese_dot_org.asc > Information about PGP can be found at http://www.mindspring.com/~aegreene/pgp/ -- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi, being prophetic about Linux. Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
