Re: 2.4.3+ sound distortion

From: Erik Mouw (J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL)
Date: Sat Apr 21 2001 - 16:52:05 EDT

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    On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:40:30PM +0200, Victor Julien wrote:
    > That did not help. The distortion is no stuttering, but noise in the music.
    > It's not specific to xmms, freeamp and xine also have the noise. The noise
    > reminds me of years ago when my father used a electric shaver witch gave
    > noise in the sound of my radio. Maybe that can give you an idea about the
    > sort of noise.
    >
    > The changelog of 2.4.3 said that there were via-chipset-fixes undone, could
    > this be a problem of my chipset?

    Possible. Another thing to check is if you started using an APM
    monitoring program, like the GNOME battery_applet which reads /proc/apm
    every couple of seconds. With every read of /proc/apm the APM driver
    calls the APM BIOS, which on some systems runs quite long with
    interrupts disabled. On my laptop this results in exactly the noise you
    described.

    Erik 

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