real player 10 and nvidia NFORCE2 sound chipset

[James Wilkinson]

Carlo Orecchia has been having problems with choppy sound in Real Player.
> vmstat gives me
> 
> [carlo at numb ~]$ vmstat 5 5
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- 
> ----cpu----
>  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id 
>  wa
>  1  0    116  11192 164112 403052    0    0   186    10   69    20  1  0 98 
>  0
>  0  0    116  10480 164120 403500    0    0    90    36 1330  1432  4  2 94 
>  0
>  0  0    116  10472 164128 403500    0    0     0    17 1259  1355  3  1 96 
>  0
>  0  0    116   9376 164128 404368    0    0   154     3 1341  1516  5  2 93 
>  0
>  0  0    116   9300 164136 404468    0    0     0   216 1348  1372  3  1 95 
>  0

And this is interesting. What it's showing us is that the processor is
essentially unused. It rules out a number of problems.

I know that you've said you've had the problems with Real Player. Do you
have similar problems in other media players?

> lsmod:
> 
> [carlo at numb ~]$ /sbin/lsmod
<snip>
> snd_intel8x0           38348  1
> snd_ac97_codec         73552  1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_pcm_oss            61992  0
> snd_mixer_oss          21120  1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm               122632  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer              36100  1 snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc         10760  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> gameport                5376  1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_mpu401_uart        10368  1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_rawmidi            31268  1 snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_seq_device          8968  1 snd_rawmidi
> snd                    64228  11 
> snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
> soundcore              11232  1 snd
> forcedeth              21760  0

You're using the built-in native drivers. They're supposed to be pretty
good.

James.

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