From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 20 11:24:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA26457 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 11:24:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lemieux.hockey.net (lemieux.hockey.net [209.98.94.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26389 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 11:24:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from orpheus@lemieux.hockey.net) Received: from localhost (orpheus@localhost) by lemieux.hockey.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA12191; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:30:52 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:30:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey Dunitz To: Bahman cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <000901bdcc1c$e2be12e0$87a1c6c3@default> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=is0-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id LAA26449 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Bahman wrote: > I have a computer with an AMD K6-2 300mhz processor, a Epox 100mhz > motherboard, a Soundblaster 16 soundcard, a Fujitsu UDMA harddrive, a 10x > IDE > cd-rom drive and Win98. My problem is that when I play a music CD it uses a > lot more CPU power than it should. Every second it jumps from 3% to 70-80%. > This makes other software stop and ít is impossible to do anything while > using the CD-player. I have tried several different CD-players and software > including Win98s CDplayer. I have tested this on Intel based computers with > Win98 and Win95 and none of them had this problem. I've also tested it with > the soundcard disabled. I would like to know if you have any suggestions > other than changing my processor and motherboard to Intel. > Dump Win98, install FreeBSD, and playing CDs will most likely cause you no interruption or slowdown. I don't have a CDrom in my FreeBSD machine, but I have a linux machine (386sx/33) that I play audio CDs on, and it's fine while running X and other things. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jeffrey Dunitz | Current Job: | orpheus@avalon.net BOFH Emeritus, Avalon Networks | Information Services | Iowa City, IA http://www.avalon.net/~orpheus | Cray Research/SGI | (319) 339-8268 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message