Subj : Re: Weird sound problem occuring...
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Michael Temmerman
Date : Fri Jul 30 2004 01:12 am

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:35:46 +0200, Sybren Stuvel wrote:

> rnwvr enlightened us with:
>> I have a Toshiba Satellite 4090XCDT with Debian unstable installed on it.
>> I compiled the ALSA drivers as modules in a custom and otherwise very
>> efficient 2.6.6 kernel. The problem I have is that when I play a sound
>> file (have only tried with an MP3) with either mplayer or xmms, and scroll
>> up or down in Mozilla, the sound slows down to about 2/3 the speed of what
>> it should be...
> 
> Hmmm... perhaps that's got something to do with your display drivers.
> Scrolling in a browser is quite heavy for your CPU if the driver
> doesn't address your video card's hardware accelleration features.
> 
> Sybren

my X config file has the following

for the trident driver:
option "NoAccel" False

the option was an automatic fill-in from XFree86 --configure, I just
enabled it...

but yeah maybe it's not able to use hardware acceleration... I should see
something in my log files though... I'll check it out, thanks

Michael

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