When listening to mp3s while browsing, every time I click a link, Kaya
kind of farts, which is quite annoying.

I'm using on-board sound.

Anyone else experience this or know how to solve it?

farts ?
what are you feeding him?

Well it makes a strange sound. The best way i can describe it is that
if Kryten from Red Dwarf farted, it would probably sound like that.

If it happens with Voyager, it might be related to a bug that happens if no AREXX is available. Voyager disables multitasking for a while in that case afair.

It is Voyager. Guess I'll just put up with it for now.

Thanks anyway.

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You can do that, but you could also try to get ARexx working. Have a look here.

Hi Robert,

Voyager eats lots of CPU at times, which seems to
cause some jitters in the onboard sound - on my system
even with AREXX active. I suspect the problem is less
noticeable on G4 systems.

I bought a cheapish Sound Blaster "Live!" card, which
finally solved the problem for me. The output quality
is also far improved over the onboard sound (reduced
noise, and better overall sound reproduction).

@-D-:

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Sure but 600mhz?

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I did this too but recently swapped it out to my A1 as the onboard sound in the A1 doesn't work at all (and is never likely to, as far as I can tell.) This probably explains why I never noticed it before.

I suppose I could buy another soundcard.

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@Robert

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According to TaskManager, it'll hit near 100% usage...especially
when it's loading up big/bloated sites like ebay. The usage peaks
seem to coincide with the sound jitters.

I definately could be wrong, but it's my best guess! :)

@ -D-:

hey, how can you control your in/output leves with
your sb-live card?
I want the amithlon-mixer (v2.1) for my SB-live card, which mixer has you?

Ciao MaSch

@-D-:

> According to TaskManager, it'll hit near 100% usage...

Isn't that really inefficient?
Do other browsers behave like this?

hello Robert,

it is kaya fault too, the "playtask" is at a lower priority than it
should be, so it is excessively sensitive to the surrounding events
this problem has been fixed

@MaSch

I haven't tried to mess with the levels yet, I just got
the card the other day. If I find something that works I'll
post it here. :)


@Robert

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Nah, not really. The sound on my Athlon will skip in a
similar way when I scroll through the window with IE.
OSX browsers appear to me even worse. IBrowse is a little better
than Voyager in this regard, but then again, Voyager is much
faster. I don't think much of it is really even browser -
centric, but just moving display data around in general is CPU
intensive.

I should also correct myself, Voyager on it's own won't peak
at 100% usage, I meant "total" usage (like Voyager plus Kaya/
AmiNetRadio/etc).