On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Diego Camacho wrote: Hi again. I have traced it to cpufreqd daemon. If I put POWERSAVE_CPUFREQD_MODULE="off" on /etc/sysconfig/powersave/common sound is ok again. Time to study cpufreqd... Ciao.
When playing a sound from KDE and/or ALSA, and the powersaved daemon is running, I get choppy sound. If I stop powersaved with "rcpowersaved stop" the sound is normal again. This choppy sound is as the sound does not comes out for some miliseconds various times per second. This choppy effect is regular in time.
I have tried to change values from /etc/powersaved.conf with no effect whatsoever, in particular the default value (333ms) sample rate for the daemon.
My theory is that powersaved scans /proc some times per second to detect ACPI events. This seems to interrupt the playing of a sound since they both (and others...) share the INT9. --
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