xmms is skipping.

sasha · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2024 3:13 am Post subject: xmms is skipping.

whenever I play music in xmms it starts to skip as if a cd would skip, although I'm playing the files from my hard drive. Anyone can help me???

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SuSe 9.2 Pro with 2.6.8 kernel

nukes · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2024 3:57 am Post subject:

does it do the same if you play it using another audio player? What scheduler are you using in the kernel? (if you don't know, just tell me what patchset you're running - i.e. ck, love, ac, nitro, vanilla etc)

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Gentoo; 2.6.11 2.6.17.7 + patches
Debian sid 2.6.13

sasha · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2024 4:28 am Post subject:

Nukes, how would I optain that information?

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SuSe 9.2 Pro with 2.6.8 kernel

Germ · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2024 12:33 pm Post subject:

SuSE 2.6.5 uses the O(1) scheduler with ck patch.

sasha, silly question...is DMA enabled for your HDD?

also, use the arts output plugin in xmms.

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Mandriva 2024 kernel-2.6.17
Slackware 10.2
Kubuntu 6.06.1

sasha · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2024 12:41 pm Post subject:

Germ, Switching to arts plugin didn't help. Silly question, what's DMA???

BTW, real player doesn't seem to have a problem with my sound card Sad

EDIT: Nevermind... it just started to do the same thing Sad

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SuSe 9.2 Pro with 2.6.8 kernel

Germ · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2024 1:10 pm Post subject:

DMA is direct memory access. When you enable DMA, your hard drive directly reads/writes to memory rather than going through the cpu. It can really speed up access times.

To see if DMA is enabled, use this command as root replacing hda with your HDD if necessary:

sasha · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2024 1:18 pm Post subject:

here is mine:

Germ · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2024 2:25 pm Post subject:

OK, you have DMA enabled. What are you trying to play...oggs?

Have you tried the alsa output plugin?

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Mandriva 2024 kernel-2.6.17
Slackware 10.2
Kubuntu 6.06.1

sasha · Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2024 9:42 am Post subject:

I'm mostly playing mp3s and oggs. The alsa player seems to like my sound card more and skips a lot less, but it's not as comfortable. I think I tried the alsa plugin (I tried the all) and no luck with xmms.

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SuSe 9.2 Pro with 2.6.8 kernel

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