[NBLUG/talk] Sound distortion while scrolling/moving windows in X

Scrappy Laptop scrappylaptop at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 10 08:52:23 PST 2008


Out of curiosity, have you tried a different type of mouse?  That is, instead of ps/2 try usb or vice-versa...The first time I ran into this problem was back in the late 90's.  I tracked it down to being a DMA or other bus contention, but it was long enough ago that I don't recall which device was usually the cause and which the victim.  You might also try changing the sampling rate of the mouse to see if that has any effect.

-Frank

Dave Sisley <dsisley at sonic.net> wrote: Here's a weird one.  If I scroll in a window while listening to music, 
the sound becomes distorted until I stop scrolling.  It also happens if 
I'm moving a window around on the screen.  The system monitor & top 
shows the CPU jumps up when I'm fooling with the windows.  It's usually 
X that's at the top of top, but if I'm scrolling in Firefox, both X and 
FF use up the CPU.

I'm currently running Fedora 8, with Gnome on the desktop.  I tried 
logging into X with xfce, but it happens there too.  I'm using xmms when 
this happens.  I've tried fiddling with various xmms and sound card 
settings, but nothing seems to help.

It's annoying.  Thanks for any ideas.

-dave.

-- 
Dave Sisley
dsisley at sonic.net
roth-sisley.net


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