On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 02:12 PM, Bobby Holley wrote: > did anyone ever find a solution to this problem? I'm having the same issue > (command line mp3 players like mpg321 work fine but xmms 1.2.10 with alsa > plugin 1.2.10 sounds crackly and is too fast). Try disabling preemption from your kernel (CONFIG_PREEMPT). luca -- BOFH excuse #372: Forced to support NT servers; sysadmins quit. Linux Registered User # 286841