31 May
2010
31 May
'10
8:30 p.m.
On 31 May 2010 at 19:48, Igor Brkic <igor(a)hyperglitch.com> wrote:
On 31.05.2010 19:16, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
Your reply IS helpful. Now I know that someone else had the
issue. While away from email for a bit, I wondered if maybe
the temperature of my system was high enough to cause a clock
rate to lower. I can imagine that a badly designed system might
even allow a lower CPU speed to alter the audio clock rate too.
Your comment about the sound speed/pitch changing under high
load would be consistent with this theory, in that high load can
increase the system's internal temperature.
Thanks....
--
Kevin
This morning when I turned on my computer it started playing
stuff on Pandora, but more slowly and at a lower pitch than
normal. I wondered if this was just a problem with Pandora,
so I checked my own song files with Amarok. Again, that
music plays more slowly and at a lower pitch than I'd expect.
1-2 days ago this very same computer played at the right
pitch and speed.
What could have gone wrong? The built-in (only) sound
card's clock is now running more slowly? Some system wide
configuration changed for the sound system, and it now slows
things down?
If it's a configuration thing, then I didn't intend to
do that, nor did I even touch the configuration. This
computer runs PulseAudio on Mandriva 2009.1. The driver is
snd_intel8x0.
Any ideas folks?
I had the same problem sometimes on my last computer. It had
Gentoo on it and onboard soundcard. Sometimes it just did
that (usually in the middle of some high demanding task, like
compilation). Solution was sometimes to just restart alsa,
but that didn't work more times that it did. Restarting whole
system usually helped.
Unfortunately, I never found out what caused the problem so
this is not very helpful (I am not using that machine any more,
but now it runs just fine with Linux Mint on it).