Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Nov 1999 09:45:08 +0100 | From | Fabrice Bellet <> | Subject | Re: laptops/notebooks and mp3 |
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On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 09:36:15PM +0100, kees wrote: > > I use a laptop ("TOPLINE 8600") for some work and have put Linux on it. > I found that playing MP3 files (2.0.37 kernel) is almost impossible, > the sound is interrupted and sometimes the player looses sync and > produces loud noice. > > They seem to throttle the cpu without telling about that. > Kees
On the IBM thinkpad 770 for example, the sound is provided by a Crystal chipset, which is perfectly handled by the cs4232 kernel module. The only thing that cuases trouble is that sound becomes hashed when coming back from a apm suspend state. The hack is to modularize the sound module, and to rmmod() and inmod() this module when this sync loose happens. You need to kill the sound apps before.
The other probable cause is a slow CPU. You can try MP3 with slower bitrates to confirm this.
Best regards, Fabrice
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