On 2006/05/21 01:00, Martin Toft wrote:
> I have not heard about librthread and would rather like to try another player 
> than 
> hacking xmms to get smoother sound on my system. Can you tell me more about 
> what is 
> being worked on and by who?

You can read about rthreads here,
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf

> Doug Clements wrote:
> > Check this: http://www.geocities.com/phileosophos/tech/pcilatency.html
> 
> Thanks for the link - I found it educational. It presents PowerStrip as the 
> solution, however, as you might have guessed by now, I am not running 
> Microsoft 
> Windows :) It makes me wonder how to change the PCI priorities in OpenBSD... 
> hmm... 
> I will try to look into that. If somebody knows that this is a wrong path to 
> follow, then please tell me.

Some motherboards (e.g. some VIA-based socket7) have problems (including
crackly/stuttering sound), fiddling with PCI priorities is a possible work-
around.

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