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 -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org