On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 11:18, Christiaan Welvaart wrote:

on a beige G3:
With a 2.6.3-based kernel, PREEMPT on (no idea if that matters),

preempt used to be broken on PPC until very recently, but I doubt it
would cause sound skips.

I hear occasional glitches in the sound output, using xmms. It sounds
like it's playing some random piece of data in memory for maybe 0.2s.
How often this happens seems to be independent of system load. The alsa
driver works fine in 2.4, and IIRC also with 2.6.0 (without PREEMPT).

The xmms ALSA plugin is known to be completely hosed. I don't have any
sound skip problems with mpd, alsaplayer, ogg123, xine, rhythmbox, ...


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