Subj : Re: Weird sound problem occuring...
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Michael Temmerman
Date : Fri Jul 30 2004 01:25 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

I've rechecked the log file from X, it says XAA (accelerated graphics) is
being used... so don't see any problems there...

I'm rather thinking something buggy in the audio drivers...

Michael

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