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

[Dave Sisley]

Dave Sisley 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.
>
>   
Okay, well, this morning the problem just isn't there.  Maybe I finally 
twiddled the right doohickey-thing.

I was trying different settings last night, and none of them seemed to 
make any difference with the sound/X problem.  Now the problem is gone.

The Linux gods are capricious.

-dave.

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