-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/2013 06:17 AM, Bob Williams wrote:
Last night I upgraded to 13.1 (zypper dup), and I regret to say, I'm still getting the same problem.
The worst offender is Google maps (and any page that uses Google maps), especially when zooming in/out, but also sometimes when scrolling. It was worse using the 'old' Google maps, but it also happens with the new version.
It also happened when running a perl script that made frequent calls to perlMagick to resize about 2,000 jpg images, amongst other jobs. This script uses all 4 cores in my CPU at between 50 and 75% according to gkrellm. Pulseaudio is supposed to run with a niceness of -11, so how does a program (perl) run from the command line push it out of the way? Or is the conflict happening somewhere else? Alsa? Gstreamer? Or is nice not respected?
Bob
Sigh.... The frustrating thing is sound would just "work" in the past. I probably spent a week on this issue a year or so ago. If I recall, it was skype that prompted my dive into the issue, ver. 3 worked, ver 4 didn't. I dorked with with pulseaudio-alsa, messed with kcmartsrc, messed with pulse/system.pa and default.pa, played with autospawn in pulse/client.conf, etc.. -- and through it all I found I could make my problem worse, kill my sound all together, but not find a fix that made sound work consistently through all applications (i.e. kde/gtk/browser web plugins/etc..) Skype was a pain, it would work with a very narrow config that broke sound for everything else, and not work when sound for everything else worked. No, I never looked at cannibalizing and rebuilding pieces of the sound puzzle, I just never had the time to dork with it. Another thing, as you have found with your sound card switch, is that sound will work fine on some hardware, but be miserable with other hardware. My laptops work fine, the dell boxes I have are hit and miss - same with the custom boxes I have (using onboard audio - no high-end sound cards) I have seen no consistency in motherboard manufacturers/sound chipsets either. I have MSI, Tyan, Gigabyte, VIA, etc.. and it is really hit or miss. In the end, it was like the pieces of the sound puzzle didn't all match the slots linux has for them. I suspect it is just a hard for the guys packaging the sound drivers/packages in the various desktops and apps to keep up with kernel and hardware changes as it is for anyone else, but the frustrating part is (1) the old stuff should just work, and (2) if it doesn't, there should be a good sound wiki somewhere that could walk you though a decision tree to find out why it doesn't and help you fix it. So far, I haven't found either.... I'm interested in whatever else you find as well. - -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlLEf5gACgkQZMpuZ8CyrciaKgCffrZby6yJiTYDs6tfp4e/50x+ wrcAmwXBq8Ecz5qO7j5QA2j6CRpC22jy =isqL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org