sound-delay in quake2

[Piotr S. <a97...@un...>]

quake2 is extremely slow because whenever a sound is played
the whole game does freeze for some time. it's still better
than the strange sound-loops played in the sgl client of
quakeforge (the glx client does work fine), but I suspect
this is only due to some echo-effects not being present in
quake2, and both problems seem to have the same origin. in
the sgl client the blocking sound gets chopped into small
portions repeated for the echo, and in quake2 it does block
the game alltogether, could this be correct? How can I work
around this problem? de-installing SDL doesn't help (i.e.
quake2 still runs slowly), and I don't know anymore how to
switch back to the kernel-driver from me using alsa 0.5.12.
is there any way to compile quake2 so that the sound-routines
from the glx-client are used? what exactly is the difference
between sound from glx and sound from sgl? (I don't have the
time to read the sources?)

Oh, and btw, I'm using cvs-stuff, and I noticed that all the
programs freeze when I have esd turned on. that's extremely
annoying, as at least for me this means that the gl-clients
rule out shutting down my computer properly...

P