F8 All multi media is TRIPLE SPEED!

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 08:15:25 UTC 2008


On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:37:27 -0700, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:

> > yep. Still about triple speed.
> > Remember the vinyl records? Sounds like a 33 being played at 78. (If I
> > remember the numbers)
> 
> Curious, is cpuspeed active?
> 
> Since cpuspeed (see also powernow) can tinker with the processor's clock speed it is 'possible' but unlikely
> that the audio code woke up with the CPU running at a low power slow speed and made timing decisions that mismatch the
> CPU running at full speed.

Unlikely IMO. The audio chip would still process sample data at the
frequency it is set up by the driver to play with. On the contrary, if
there's a bug in the kernel driver or an incompatibility in alsa lib, the
result could be that 44.1 kHz sample data are played at 96 kHz, for
example.




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