Choppy Sound Production in Linux 2.6

[Jerry McBride]

On Monday 06 December 2004 04:52 pm, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> Hey all,
> Has anyone else noticed significantly worse audio performance in the
> Linux 2.6 Kernels?  Or is it just SuSE's 2.6 kernels?
> I'm running SuSE 9.1 and CD's play great (because they write audio
> directly to the sound card) but XMMS ticks and cracks and jitters on my
> MP3's.
>
> Anyone found a solution to this?
>


Hi Matthew,

Yeah, in the early 2.6 kernels I had terrible sound via arts over alsa over 
the onboard '97 audio sound chips. What really helped me were the later 
kernels... 2.6.8 was and still is th sweet spot for the hardware I run.

Jerry...
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