Alessandro Polverini wrote: > On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 11:01, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote: > >>[...] >>I used stock kernels on both 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0, and every audio app I use >>(xmms, rhythmbox, gst-player) has this problem. I have tried with both >>OSS sound output, ALSA oss emulation, and pure ALSA. pure ALSA gives the >>best result up to now, but still unacceptably worse than with 7.3. > > > Hello Thomas, > I have the exact same problem. > > My setup is an athlon XP2000+ and a sounblaster live, and the sound > quality is very low due to these bad droputs. > I've been told that it's possible to solve the problem by installing > ALSA, but I've not yet tryied it, an official package from Red Hat would > be very welcome :) > > If there is a way to solve that (very annoying) problem without > replacing the entire sound system I would be glad to know it. > > Bye, > Alex > (Reposting, since it's probably an audio app priority issue) Yes, X now runs with a nice of -10 (why? deadlocks? Mike Harris would know ...) If the Xserver takes too long, audio can easily be interupted. Try using renice on xmms (as root): renice -15 <pid_of_xmms> You can also (as root): nice -15 xmms But xmms now runs as root. With renice, it still belongs to the user. If you're using esd, it should be renice'd as well. Even if X were running with nice 0, it's still good practice to elevate the priority of the realtime audio processes to avoid skips. Does anyone have a nice way to do this without popping in & out of root? Cheers, -Bob Arendt -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
