sounds like either a sound driver problem, or your irq of your soundcard overlaps with something else. do a cat /proc/interrupts Look to see if the irq of your soundcard has another device listed for it also. My sound would skip during heavy network activity, and it turns out that my irq of eth0 was the same as the soundcard. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Nemchenko [mailto:drew at usfamily.net] > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 5:29 PM > To: tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] How can I prevent kmp3 from skipping during > playback? > > > consider using xmms > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Brad.C.Elkin at seagate.com> > To: <tclug-list at lists.real-time.com> > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 1:03 PM > Subject: [TCLUG] How can I prevent kmp3 from skipping during playback? > > > > > > I'm running Mandrake 7.0. > > > > I use kmp3 to run music for a folk-dance group off of my > laptop, but the > playback skips every-so-often. > > I'm assuming that it's a buffer underrun, but I don't know > how to monitor > kmp3. It is most definitely intermittent, unrepeatable, indeterminate > > behavior and all of those other > > descriptions you learn in CSci when you have battling processes. > > I have a 233 Mhz Pentium with the Opl3SAx sound chipset > and I use the > standard drivers installed. kmp3 seems to use about 15% of > the cpu and very > > little disk time. > > I've tried tuning with hdparm and removed the at and cron > daemons. I run > kmp3 at nice -19. Only one daemon, mdrecoveryd, seems to be > running with > > a higher priority.(and I don't know what it does) > > I also tried alsaplayer, which also skips, and > occasionally the sound > drops out completely. > > > > Is there a debug mode or other way that I can monitor > system performance > so that I can look in (some) log file or messages file to see > what else is > > happening when kmp3 skips? > > It looks like there is very little disk activity while > running kmp3. Is > it just accepted that kmp3 occasionally skips? > > (Am I missing some key tunable system parameter?) > > Any suggestions on other lists I can write to? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From > $7.99/mo! ------ > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >