xmms skipping

[Samuel Flory]

Maynard Kuona wrote:

>My xmms skips like its not even funny. I know this is a beta, but I
>would have hoped it would be skipping less not more. It skip much more
>than RH9 when i change tabs in Epiphany, switch to another program,
>change desktops, even when scrolling on a web page.
>
>Does anyone know anything I can do to stop it skipping.
>
>BTW, I already tried increasing the buffer in esound, but this is not
>helping. I am using DMA too, so that is not the issue.
>

  Are you running DMA on your ide hard drive?  hdparm -d /dev/hd(something).

>
>Also, are there any plans to include the preemptive kernel patch. I wish
>they could give us a number of kernels to choose from. I hat having my
>audio skipping. It is the thing that annoys me the most about my RH
>linux installs.
>
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