Re: Sound stutter

[Michael Bona <mbona@bigfoot.com>]

Rene Cunningham wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:48:59PM +0200, Michael Bona wrote:
>> I am running Woody / KDE 3.1.3 with aRts on a Duron 800  with 258 MB of
>> RAM. I have tried several players, notably noatun and kaboodle.
>> Soundserver runs with realtime priority (setting in KDE control center).
>> 
>> Any advice?
> 
> Try a preemptive kernel.
> 
> patches for 2.4
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/preempt-kernel/v2.4/
> 
> Enable dma with hdparm.
> 

Thanks for the help. But I am using a preemptive kernel and my harddisk is
using DMA. I'll try XMMS to find out if that helps.

Michael