Daniel James wrote: >>However if >>I do something that peaks the CPU (like dragging a window around >>really fast), this also causes the sound to skip immediately. > > > Are you by any chance using Mandrake, or have the kdm login manager > installed? If so, the problem is likely to be X being reniced by > default, and you might like to try this fix: > > Adjust the -n level from -10 to 0 in the file /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers so > the last line looks like this: > > :0 local /bin/nice -n 0 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -deferglyphs 16 I'm not using Mandrake (I run Slackware 9.1 currently), but I'm not sure if I've got the kdm login manager installed. (ps -ef|grep kdm shows nothing, if that tells you anything.) I use text-based login on my system, and after logging in, I run startx to bring up Gnome. Here's my /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file: # $Xorg: Xserv.ws.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:17 cpqbld Exp $ # # Xservers file, workstation prototype # # This file should contain an entry to start the server on the # local display; if you have more than one display (not screen), # you can add entries to the list (one per line). If you also # have some X terminals connected which do not support XDMCP, # you can add them here as well. Each X terminal line should # look like: # XTerminalName:0 foreign # :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X So it's just that one line, and it doesn't currently have the call to /bin/nice. Should I add it? Thanks, Anthony http://nodivisions.com/
