Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jul 2003 16:21:50 +0200 | From | Takashi Iwai <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-test1-mm2 music skips |
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At Sun, 20 Jul 2003 21:21:43 -0400, Ed Sweetman wrote: > > Christian Axelsson wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 22:34, Lukas Kolbe wrote: > > > > Please read the O*int threads. > > It's probably Con's new scheduler that is causing these problems. > > If you are using alsa, try the OSS emulation as it seems to help abit. > > > > I've been using the 2.5 kernel for a long time now and the 2.4 kernel > since it was just turned into 2.3. There have been these "problems" > since 2.3, this is not something new caused by any new schedulers. The > schedulers can cause problems, no doubt, but they also make userspace > programming issues apparent. The fact that going to oss emu only proves > that this is mostly a userspace problem. ALSA drivers have to be coded > with much more attention to latency because it's very specific about > being run on time. You can only send it a small amount of data every > write you make to the soundcard.
well, just a small correction: it's ALSA output plugin of xmms, not ALSA drivers. it uses the hardware buffer directly (or mmapped) while xmms OSS output plugin has much larger internal buffers.
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