Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:47:16PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>
> apt-get install bumprace.
apt-cache show bumprace | grep Maintainer
> The reason I mention it as a test app is because it's relatively small
> and easy to install, don't require 3D X accelleration (or much video
> at all) and it it's a good example of an app that sounds absolutely
> awful on my i386/sid Athlon64.
>
> Basically, when the CPU load goes above 1 (which will happen quite
> easily with bumprace) audio seems to just go to pieces. Stuttering
> and dropping out, but also speeding up and changing volume erratically.
> Happens with all apps which put the CPU under load, AFAICT, and a
> few that don't, too, but most simple single-thread audio producing
> applications like saytime will sound just fine.
I think I heard something like this before, not sure which package. But it
only happened with 2.6 kernels, I think it was reassigned to the kernel, I
don't see it in the bumprace or sdl-mixer bugreports, maybe you can dig it
up...
Christian
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