[vox-tech] Skipping sound

[Samuel Merritt]

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If I have music playing and I move a window around, switch windows, or
scroll a window, the music stutters. I'm using XFree86 4.2.1 and ALSA
0.9.0rc2 (defaults for Mandrake 9).=20

This happens in any video mode I try, from 1024x768, 24bpp down to
640x480, 8bpp, though the stuttering is worse in higher resolutions and
color depths.

I've also tried switching between ALSA and OSS. It makes no difference.=20

The video card is a Matrox Mystique with 4MB video RAM (MGA 1064SG).=20
The sound card is an onboard CM8738.=20

I'd heard about problems like this years ago, having to do with the
video card drivers hogging the PCI bus for long periods of time. I
played with the option "PciRetry", found in the mga(4) man page. The
stuttering is the same whether this option is on or off.=20

Google doesn't come up with any relevant results; I did find a whole
bunch of pages about a setting that goes in system.ini, but I don't have
one of those. =3D)


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