On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Alex Deucher wrote:
> Rainer,
>
> I'm not too familiar with the ct5880 sound chip that comes built onto
> motherboards. I do know that alot of the AC'97 compliant built in sound
> chips tend to let the host cpu do most of the processing involved in
> playing the sound. That being said, even if you have a dedicated sound
> processor, mp3 decoding is very processor intensive. It just so happens
> that seti is also very processor intensive. Both of these processes are
> vying for time on the cpu. Since both of these processes are so
> processor intensive and the cpu can only do one thing at a time, the
> performance of one or the other process will suffer from time to time.
>
> Alex
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> Hi,
>
> I hope you can help me. I have a problem with my on board soundcard and
> seti. I have a Gigabyte GA-7ZX Creative 5880 sound chip. I use the
> kernel
> driver es1371 and it works goot. But when I run seti@home I got some
> noise
> in my sound when I play mp3 and other sound. But it is not every time
> 10s
> play good than for 2 s bad and than 10s good 2s bad and so on. When I
> kill
> seti@home every thing is ok. So what can I do?
>
> I have a Athlon 800 Mhz and 128 MB RAM
>
> cu
> Rainer
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