Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:30:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey Dunitz <orpheus@lemieux.hockey.net> To: Bahman <bahman.sg@goteborg.mail.telia.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980820132902.4679F-100000@lemieux.hockey.net> In-Reply-To: <000901bdcc1c$e2be12e0$87a1c6c3@default>
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On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Bahman wrote: > I have a computer with an AMD K6-2 300mhz processor, a Epox 100mhz > motherboard, a Soundblaster 16 soundcard, a Fujitsu UDMA harddrive, a 10x > IDE > cd-rom drive and Win98. My problem is that when I play a music CD it uses a > lot more CPU power than it should. Every second it jumps from 3% to 70-80%. > This makes other software stop and ít is impossible to do anything while > using the CD-player. I have tried several different CD-players and software > including Win98s CDplayer. I have tested this on Intel based computers with > Win98 and Win95 and none of them had this problem. I've also tested it with > the soundcard disabled. I would like to know if you have any suggestions > other than changing my processor and motherboard to Intel. > Dump Win98, install FreeBSD, and playing CDs will most likely cause you no interruption or slowdown. I don't have a CDrom in my FreeBSD machine, but I have a linux machine (386sx/33) that I play audio CDs on, and it's fine while running X and other things. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jeffrey Dunitz | Current Job: | orpheus@avalon.net BOFH Emeritus, Avalon Networks | Information Services | Iowa City, IA http://www.avalon.net/~orpheus | Cray Research/SGI | (319) 339-8268 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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