From: Michael R. <mr...@us...> - 2003-02-15 18:09:19
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Hi Bill, > > > The memory was not increasing according to top. > > > > That's strange. > > It's definitely strange. I'll try and remember to give it a try on > one of the systems at work since I believe they have different sound > hardware than my home system. That would be interesting. > > > Perhaps the write is just returning when the buffer is full > > > without doing anything. > > > > That would be a violation of standardized write behaviour, because > > the return value indicates that the complete buffer has been > > written to the device successfully. Otherwise xine's buffer probing > > would bail out. > > I'd guess that the kernel sound driver is badly broken in some > fashion. Possibly. > > It looks like you really have to live with softsync or is ALSA > > available as a last resort? > > I believe ALSA is available for PPC, but I'm not that adventurous to > try it out. softsync actually works pretty well for me on my home > system since the system clock seems to be very accurate (now it's a > different matter on the work systems that have major clock drifts). Your decision, but I found ALSA very easy to setup. Michael -- Broad surveillance is a mark of bad security. -Bruce Schneier |