skipping audio on severn

[Gregory Boyce]

Just ignore me.  It's CR 100422.

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:11, Gregory Boyce wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been running the severn beta on my machines at home for the past
> week or so, and I've been noticing a problem on my desktop machine that
> I'm curious if anyone else is seeing.
> 
> I'm getting rather audio skips in xmms playing mp3 or ogg files when
> doing even the simplest of tasks on the machine.  Switching between
> different workspaces causes a slight skip, and I can even cause slight
> skipping by just moving the mouse around.
> 
> For an audio driver I'm using the via82cxxx_audio driver.  My audio
> controller in lspci is:
> 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686
> AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
> 
> I'm using xmms with the esd output plugin.  Increasing the buffer size
> to 7000ms doesn't help in the least.
> 
> I didn't have this problem at all with Redhat 9, and if I run Arjan's
> 2.6.0-test2 kernel, no skips show up at all.  Unfortunately I can't run
> it regularly due to an annoying mouse issue where the scroll wheel stops
> working under that kernel.
> 
> Anyone have any thoughts?
-- 
Gregory Boyce <gboyce at badbelly.com>