Choppy Sound Production in Linux 2.6

[Michael Scottaline]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 20:21:12 -0500, Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.
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I'm running 2.6.9 (FC3), listening to a Tori Amos MP3 on XMMS (1.2.10)
at this very moment.  Sounds just fine to me.  Perhaps >2.6.8 has
eliminated any earlier sound problems with 2.6.x kernels <shurg>
Mike
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