Re: XMMS Plays Really Slow
Hi Jacob,
Did XMMS play correctly before you upgraded the Kernel?
Thanks,
Jake
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:17:31AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote:
> I've got a computer running a mix of testing/unstable with the latest
> updates with a weird problem.
>
> I upgraded to kernel-image-2.4.25 so I could take advantage of the
> pre-compiled alsa modules available in alsa-modules-2.4.25. aRts seems
> to recognize the sound card fine after the modules are loaded - kscd
> plays an audio cd without any problems. However, when I load xmms and
> try to play a song, it takes about 10 - 15 seconds for each second of
> audio that it plays. I switched back to the OSS modules and have the
> same problem. I then tried upgrading to 2.4.26, but it still does the
> same thing.
>
> I have checked and it's not loading up the memory or cpu, so I can't see
> what would be causing this. The computer is an AMD 2600 with 512MB of
> ram. The sound card is built into a Gigabyte motherboard using the
> Nvidia nforce2 chipset. I am trying both the i810_audio and snd-intel8x0
> modules. Occasionally I get this error from the i810_audio module:
> kernel: i810_audio: drain_dac, dma timeout?
>
> Under kernel 2.4.20, before I did the recent updates, this sound card
> and the i810_audio module worked great together.
>
> Has anyone else seen this problem before?
>
> TIA,
> Jacob
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