Re: [SLUG] Audio skipping on Ubuntu kernels

[Scott Ragen <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

slug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/08/2007 03:05:49 PM:

> On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:31 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:27 +1000, James Gregory wrote:
> > > Hey guys,
> > > 
> > > I've found that playback of music on my laptop has this horrible,
> > > horrible tendency to "skip" (by which I mean that the music stops 
for
> > > some fraction of a second) extremely frequently. This has only been
> > > occurring since Ubuntu's -generic kernels came in (I forget which
> > > version that was).
> > 
> > I'd check your disk is using dma; PIO disk IO is a great way to turn
> > your laptop into a snail.
> 
This might be way off, but I had intermittant freezing problems with the 
kernel using cpufreq ondemand governor.
To see what govenor is used, try
# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor

Try setting it to performance if its anything but.

Cheers,

Scott