[LAU] Asus EEE 901 and Audacity

[Raine M. Ekman]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, James Stone wrote:
> If the eeePC that you have is anything like the 701 I have, you might
> find you need a small usb sound device to get over problems with xruns
> from the rather dodgy intel soundchip on the same interrupt as the
> graphics device....

I tried to get Audacity (1.2.6) to behave nicely on my eee 901 and the 
results were interesting: small stutters every few seconds when playing 
back, even when I covered the window with a terminal to prevent screen 
updating. I could see the cursor stopping in sync with the stutters, too. 
No tweaking module parameters or choice of playback devices fixed the 
problem. Recording seemed to work fine.

All the Xandros-shipped programs I tried did play audio without any 
problems, and I can even watch a DVB recording in fullscreen for minutes 
with perfect sound, which to me says the interrupt problem shouldn't be 
that serious. I wonder what Audacity does differently from those other 
alternatives?

These are just a few observations, I'm probably not going to use my Eee 
much for anything audio-related, so please spare me the messages on 
upgrading kernel, distro or hardware.. I know about those options already 
;)

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  Raine M. Ekman ...... raine at iki.fi
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