Re: [audio problem] Audio skips
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:41:25PM +0100, belbo wrote:
> Peter Nuttall wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:26:22PM +0100, belbo wrote:
> >
> [...]
> > The only thing that springs to mind is that you might have X niced to
> > some value like 10 and its stealing too much cpu time. renice can fix
> > this.
>
> Yes, my Xorg has -10 priority. And Gnome is quite slow even with -10. X How can
> I put value down? Which value can I try? Does it make any sense increase player
> priority? Audio never skipped, probably an upgrade changed some priority.
>
renice esd 10 (or -10, I can't remember which )
>
> > Any other guess is going to need more infomation, such as:
> >
> > 1) what version of debian are you running?
>
> Debian Testing Etch, updated with apt every day.
>
> > 2) what are your system specs?
>
> * CPU: Athlon XP+ 2400
> * MOTHERBOARD: motherboard ASUS A7V8X
> * AUDIO card: Creative SoundBlaster Live! 1024
> * VIDEO card: nVidia GForce4 Ti 4200 128MB
>
> > 3) are you runnning a desktop like KDE or GNOME?
>
> Yes, last version of Gnome.
>
> > 4) what kernel are you running?
>
> kernel 2.6.12-1-k7
>
> > 5) is your system normally heavily loaded?
>
> Firefox, Thunderbird, aMule, amarok always loaded in user space. Neither servers
> nor services loaded in system space.
>
> > 5) what are you using to play your song or movie?
>
> I tried almost every player: mplayer, amarok, totem, xine, but audio stream
> skips in the same way even with mpg321.
>
> Thank you for helping,
> Belbo
>
>
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>
I can't think what is going wrong, unless you have the wrong driver for
your soundcard or there is a bug in the sound system.
Sorry
Pete
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