Try uninstalling pulseaudio - cured my sound problems when watching digital TV.
Hmmm that seems to have fixed both the audio annoyances, and the graphics fps issues in games. Strange how PulseAudio appears to also have been affecting graphics performance... still testing that one to be sure the graphics are working right....
The important thing is that your audio and graphics hassles have been solved.
Re the reason why: I suspect - as I expressed some months ago with another, similar problem, I had - is caused by the dbus being clogged up by the offending application in this instance pulseaudio (or the IRQ being monopolised by the rogue app.).
Well.... yes and no. The audio problems were definitely solved by removing PulseAudio (and likely for reasons you described above), but the problems with graphics/fps slowdowns in games were not truly solved until I installed a 2.6.26 kernel from the 11.0 tree. The default pae kernel from 11.1 (2.6.27) is causing some very noticeable slowdowns, particularly in games like World of Warcraft in Wine/Cedega, and not just on my computer... several other people are grousing about the same issue in the Cedega community. It's not every 2.6.27 kernel though... seems tied to specific distributions like openSUSE,and maybe even specific hardware combinations... maybe. I'm not sure of all the details yet. It seems to be something to do with the scheduler... and as you roll back to previous kernels the performance increases... eg a 2.6.24 kernel is about 10 to 15% better for gaming than a 2.6.27 kernel. Not so important for those who don't game :-) C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org