Re: 2.4.3+ sound distortion

Erik Mouw (J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL)
Sat, 21 Apr 2001 22:52:05 +0200

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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