During heavy-duty IO operations, the xmms sound becomes so scratchy and garbled that it is unbearable. This occurs when doing things like 'apt-get dist-upgrade' and while ripping cds with cdparanoia. I don't remember this happenning before. The sound card is an ISA Soundblaster 16 PnP and the motherboard is a Pentium II motherboard with two relatively new 6 GB IDE hard drives. I don't remember this happening before, but I realize that the system bus is probably being overloaded by the data going to/from the hard drives ahd the memory to adequately deliver data to the sound cards. Is there any setting I can tell something (BIOS, kernel, etc) so that the bus is shared better? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
