[NTLUG:Discuss] inconsistent sound

[Ralph Green, Jr]

Howdy,
  As you have seen from other replies, you are not the first one to see
this problem.  I have seen it several times, and used various approaches
to get around it.  I have always been able to get around it, but the
causes varied.
  One system was an older VIA chipset motherboard(an MSI, like yours)
running a Duron 950.  I tried several distros and they all had problems
with the onboard sound.  I put an Audigy sound card in and it sounded
fine.  Well, it sounded fine until a couple of years later when a
lightning strike nearby killed the motherboard.
  On a Compaq Ipaq system with an Intel 810 chipset and a P3/650, I
found some Linux distros had this problem and some did not(I did not
keep notes on that aspect, so I can't tell you which had the problem).
  I have seen a VNC server cause this problem, too.  Even though CPU
utilization was not nearly maxed out, stopping the VNC server on one
machine is needed sometimes(XorbServer, or some such).  This was a
Mandrake 10 system, and I don't know if the problem was anything
specific to that version.
  So, you may have lots of things to try.
Good luck,
Ralph 

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 21:20, Kevin Brannen wrote:
> Has anyone every had a system (or heard one) that plays sound at an 
> inconsistent speed?  For example, I'm using xmms to play some MP3s I