Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >Sometime over the last month, a rawhide update bestowed upon me a > >version of gnome-cd which skips. Bits of the audio drop out every 30 > >seconds or so. > > I filed this today because I was seeing skips with mixed data/audio CDs. > Is the CD you played back by any chance in this category? > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168978 I have such CDs, but *every* CD I play skips, regardless of whether it has data tracks or not. So I don't think that's it. I ran it under strace for a bit today. As others have guessed, gnome-cd is not actually dealing with the music stream itself; that goes direct to the sound card from the play. I see the gnome-cd process doing two things: - Talking with the X server. Not surprising. - ioctl(20, CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS, 0x7fffffff) = 4 So now I'm beginning to wonder: might the real problem be a regression in the kernel such that this ioctl() call perturbs a running CD drive? *This* is the sort of problem I can try to track down (whereas what goes on inside GNOME is a deep, dark mystery), so I think I'll try to carve out a bit of time to dig further. jon