Carlo Orecchia has been having problems with choppy sound in Real Player.
> vmstat gives me
>
> [carlo@numb ~]$ vmstat 5 5
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system--
> ----cpu----
> r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
> wa
> 1 0 116 11192 164112 403052 0 0 186 10 69 20 1 0 98
> 0
> 0 0 116 10480 164120 403500 0 0 90 36 1330 1432 4 2 94
> 0
> 0 0 116 10472 164128 403500 0 0 0 17 1259 1355 3 1 96
> 0
> 0 0 116 9376 164128 404368 0 0 154 3 1341 1516 5 2 93
> 0
> 0 0 116 9300 164136 404468 0 0 0 216 1348 1372 3 1 95
> 0
And this is interesting. What it's showing us is that the processor is
essentially unused. It rules out a number of problems.
I know that you've said you've had the problems with Real Player. Do you
have similar problems in other media players?
> lsmod:
>
> [carlo@numb ~]$ /sbin/lsmod
<snip>
> snd_intel8x0 38348 1
> snd_ac97_codec 73552 1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_pcm_oss 61992 0
> snd_mixer_oss 21120 1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm 122632 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer 36100 1 snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc 10760 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> gameport 5376 1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_mpu401_uart 10368 1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_rawmidi 31268 1 snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_seq_device 8968 1 snd_rawmidi
> snd 64228 11
> snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
> soundcore 11232 1 snd
> forcedeth 21760 0
You're using the built-in native drivers. They're supposed to be pretty
good.
James.
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