I noticed something this past weekend that had to deal with
sound and possibly the Linux kernel.
I have a sb AWE64 sound card and am running kernel 2.2.14. I
was playing my mp3's and the sound was good but every now and
then it wulod get choppy. I noticed the problem was even more
significant after I burned a cdrom with these mp3's and played
them in my SB 52x cdrom. I then tried them on a windows machine
and the mp3 cdrom sounded great.
The machine IS an SMP machine with DUAL 233's (which is why I
sent to SMP list too).
It seems that it may be related to I/O issues as It only happens
when I start doing other things with the system. I'll be
upgrading to 2.2.15 and doing some testing as this is a DUAL
boot NT/linux box to see if I can rule out any hardware issues.
I know that this could be the mp3 player that I am using, and
I'll be testing that out too, but how does Linux handle
prioritizing? In particular disk I/O vs sound I/O which gets
priority?
Also is the I/O (either sound or disk) buffered or delayed? I
have noticed that when using my zip drive and do a cp xxx /zip
my prompt comes back before the I/O is done.
Has anyone else experienced this? If not I am using xmms as my
mp3 player is there a better player?
Lastly to prevent pissing people on these lists off please reply
just to me.. thanks.
Joe
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