On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 13:56 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
if i remember correctly the way you have the sound set up with firefox that it is CPU hog? correct if i wrong wrong.
I think you are right. My system seems to have slowed down. As I type this right now in Evolution, it's moving slowly. And I'm not even playing any sound!
If I understand correctly, in order to get sound to work in FireFox, I transferred some of the sound processing over to the CPU by configuring an .asoundrc file.
That seems to be coming with a price of overall lowered performance, and the sound occassionally cutting out.
Is there a solution to this that doesn't require buying a new computer?
If the on-board soundcard is a true SB Live! then you should give using it a try as it *does* support hardware mixing.