From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stas Sergeev Subject: Re: XMS problem with Aladdin demo Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:58:58 +0300 Message-ID: <42276C82.7060900@aknet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Hello. Julius Schwartzenberg wrote: > very long delays in the sound. Changing $_oss_max_frags = (0x20) to > (0x5) seems to fix this. I have this on both my workstation and my > laptop. Is this because of a crappy driver/audiochip? No, thats the crappy sound code of dosemu this time. > Is there any > reason the default isn't set lower? I don't know, I think it was to avoid the underruns, but 0x20 is probably too much. Anyway, the sound code needs a complete rewrite. And this time one really have to *think* before rewriting it. Currently there is no manpower to do that.