[SWLUG] tweaking for sound performance

[Telsa Gwynne]

I may be about to get in over my head, here, but...

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 01:44:02PM +0000 or thereabouts, swlug at azem.org wrote:
> On Monday 12 July 2004 11:41 am, Dick Porter wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 00:07, bascule wrote:
> > > what, if any, tweaks might there be to improve sound performance
> > > on an old system with a slow processor and an isa soundcard, the
> > > card is an sb32awe which was quite reasonable in its day, the
> > > processor an amd 5x86 - unknown speed - , the machine has no
> > > other purpose but to play mp3s, the decoding of which i think is
> > > the reason it's being pushed just a little beyond its capabilities,
> >
> > Should be plenty of cpu power for mp3 there.  My old pentium-120
> > was quite capable of playing mp3s on the sb32awe while it encoded
> > others.
> 
> 
> What distro are you running, have you concidered completely gutting it 
> and starting with an LFS?

Out of curiosity, what is the logical leap that goes from "Not
sure whether this hardware has enough power to play mp3s" to 
"If you don't know whether there is enough power, then why not 
compile an entire distro for it?" 

Telsa