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Date:      Sat, 20 Jan 2001 09:47:05 -0500
From:      "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pcm status
Message-ID:  <20010120094705.B12408@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <200101200642.f0K6gXs19678@billy-club.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 11:42:32PM -0700
References:  <20010120002418.A4673@edgemaster.zombie.org> <200101200642.f0K6gXs19678@billy-club.village.org>

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This is directly traceable to entropy harvesting by /dev/*random.
I know it's not an option if you need to use ssh, but not loading
random.ko will fix the sound problems when moving the mouse or
typing.  It doesn't fix the 'hwptr went backwards' messages, though.

On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 11:42:32PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <20010120002418.A4673@edgemaster.zombie.org> Sean Kelly writes:
> : I did not have this behavior in -STABLE, but now I do since I upgraded
> : to -CURRENT.
> 
> -current's interrupt latency is horrible these days, which seems to
> manifest itself in problem with the sound driver.  I have a -current
> laptop and get all kinds of artifacts on it.  I have a laptop that is
> running -stable and has 1/3 the power of the -current laptop and plays
> w/o a hitch.
> 
> Warner
> 
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