Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 20:35:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> To: Wade Majors <wade@ezri.org> Cc: Orion Hodson <hodson@icir.org> Subject: Re: Adjusting pcm buffersize? Message-ID: <XFMail.20030415203525.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <3E9C7472.7040500@ezri.org>
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On 15-Apr-2003 Wade Majors wrote: > Ok, Orion Hodson is a genius. I don't know how he diagnoses this stuff > so easily. > > I have traced the problem to the esound daemon. Taking esd out of the > loop and using the OSS driver in XMMS works flawlessly under the same > situations that I was getting the underruns with esd. I switch the > output to Esound and the problems return. > > Huh. > > Since it seems not much stuff will work writing directly (or am I > mistaken?), what are my alternatives here? > > Do others seeing this problem have the same results writing directly to > the device? No. I don't use esound, artsd, or any other sound daemon. Just straight mpg123 (built without esound). It mostly works fine, except under heavy loads (buildworld or huge port builds), or when text is scrolling in certain apps (interrupt problems?), in which case it either slows down, breaks up, or both. So, I think the problem runs a bit deeper than suggested. Sure, a sound daemon will impact performance, but the problem exists even without. -- Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> - "In Unix veritas"
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