On 31 May 2010 at 19:48, Igor Brkic <igor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 31.05.2010 19:16, Kevin Cosgrove wrote: > > > > This morning when I turned on my computer it started playing > > stuff on Pandora, but more slowly and at a lower pitch than > > normal. I wondered if this was just a problem with Pandora, > > so I checked my own song files with Amarok. Again, that > > music plays more slowly and at a lower pitch than I'd expect. > > 1-2 days ago this very same computer played at the right > > pitch and speed. > > > > What could have gone wrong? The built-in (only) sound > > card's clock is now running more slowly? Some system wide > > configuration changed for the sound system, and it now slows > > things down? > > > > If it's a configuration thing, then I didn't intend to > > do that, nor did I even touch the configuration. This > > computer runs PulseAudio on Mandriva 2009.1. The driver is > > snd_intel8x0. > > > > Any ideas folks? > > > I had the same problem sometimes on my last computer. It had > Gentoo on it and onboard soundcard. Sometimes it just did > that (usually in the middle of some high demanding task, like > compilation). Solution was sometimes to just restart alsa, > but that didn't work more times that it did. Restarting whole > system usually helped. > > Unfortunately, I never found out what caused the problem so > this is not very helpful (I am not using that machine any more, > but now it runs just fine with Linux Mint on it). Your reply IS helpful. Now I know that someone else had the issue. While away from email for a bit, I wondered if maybe the temperature of my system was high enough to cause a clock rate to lower. I can imagine that a badly designed system might even allow a lower CPU speed to alter the audio clock rate too. Your comment about the sound speed/pitch changing under high load would be consistent with this theory, in that high load can increase the system's internal temperature. Thanks.... -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
