On 30 Jan 2001, Reine Johansson wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Just upgraded to XFree86 4.02 (with a little trouble) on my woody-box (Linux
> 2.4.1).
> 
> After using it a while I noticed that while playing a mp3 and scrolling the
> Netscape-window the sound from the mp3 got distorted. I thought this was very
> strange cause I've never experienced anything like this on this machine (Dual
> Celeron 533).
> 
> Then I ran "top" a saw that the process "X" had a nicevalue of -10. The
> processes state was marked as "S<" (which is High Priority Process). I asked a
> friend who is also using XFree86 4.02 and he had a nice-value of 0.
> 
> Have anyone experienced the same. Any suggestions?
> 
> TIA!
> 
> /Reine

Top shows the same thing on my machine, but this doesn't seem to affect
playing sound.

Anthony

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