From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: iBook G3: status of 2.6.5 From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= To: Christiaan Welvaart Cc: linuxppc-dev list In-Reply-To: References: <1080687801.13152.56.camel@gaston> <1080689835.9195.52.camel@thor.asgaard.local> <1080690668.1216.65.camel@gaston> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Message-Id: <1080730223.2199.14.camel@thor.asgaard.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:50:24 +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 11:18, Christiaan Welvaart wrote: > > on a beige G3: > With a 2.6.3-based kernel, PREEMPT on (no idea if that matters), preempt used to be broken on PPC until very recently, but I doubt it would cause sound skips. > I hear occasional glitches in the sound output, using xmms. It sounds > like it's playing some random piece of data in memory for maybe 0.2s. > How often this happens seems to be independent of system load. The alsa > driver works fine in 2.4, and IIRC also with 2.6.0 (without PREEMPT). The xmms ALSA plugin is known to be completely hosed. I don't have any sound skip problems with mpd, alsaplayer, ogg123, xine, rhythmbox, ... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/