[SWLUG] tweaking for sound performance

Telsa Gwynne hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk
Mon Jul 12 13:11:06 UTC 2004


On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 12:07:28AM +0100 or thereabouts, 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 

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
..to give you the speed of the processor. 

And how much RAM is there? (If you have forgotten, then 'free' or
'free -m' will tell you: the -m reports in MB and can be easier to
read.)

Telsa





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