On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 12:36 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: > But the problem is getting those ticks out. In particular, with the > new timer chips on the newer chipsets, rtc works by polling, which is > notoriously bad at accurate timing. Even with interrupts, you cannot > have them too often or your computer will not do much, and the timer > interrupt could be delayed. Ie, your computer does a whole lot of > stuff besides audio all of which can interfer with the > timing.
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