Jürgen Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > I get terrible performance problems
> > some of the times(reported here in a separate thread
> > but didn't get much response from people, so assuming
> > that everyone 
>
> everyone?
> Or noone?
>
> > is a getting a jittery USB mouse and skipping in xmms during IO loads)
>
>
> What kind of media are you using in xmms? 
>
> An audio CD, with analog audio output from the CD/DVD drive
> connected to the system's sound card?  (Probably not, I guess it's
> impossible to get skipping with such a setup)
>
> Or an audio CD, and the audio application extracts the digital audio
> samples using ATAPI/SCSI READ commands over the data bus, then
> sends them to the sound hardware?  The IDE/ATA bus might be 
> blocked during heavy IO loads and that could explan the skipping.

It may make sense to first try playing audio with cdda2wav.

Jörg

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