Mandrake 8 sound skips?

jp1994 · 08-11-2001, 08:53 AM

Kernel is 2.4.3
Aureal vortex 2 sound card, drivers installed (ver. 1.1.1).
Any OpenGL games (UnrealTournament,Chromium,Tuxracer,etc..)
run great and look good but the sound skips on and off.
on-off-on-off every second or so.
My .mp3's run fine with no skipping and the system sounds work ok.
I am running Gnome,but have tried KDE(which was worse,even the system sounds skipped) and I tried changing the settings in the sound server in KDE to no avail.
Any Ideas?
This is driving me nuts.
Thanks

Joe

cinnix · 08-11-2001, 09:06 AM

How much ram do you have in that box. Low system resources always makes my music skip. It sounds like this is happening when you are running some resource-hungry games.

jp1994 · 08-11-2001, 11:48 AM

I have 256 megs of ram in it.
Is there any other settings or something?
Thanks
Joe