On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 00:21 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Also superhighendthreedeegraphicshardandsoftware can degrade audio > performance in various ways, depending on the system, its drivers > etc.. > Currently Creative is fighting that issue btw., see > http://xfi.blogspot.com/2006/05/crackling-and-popping-x-fi.html for > some funny reading. Bwahahaha. They've been struggling with that since the first emu10k1 devices came out - about 10 years now ;-) Yet another reason that open source drivers are technically superior - vendors (especially video card vendors but it's also been seen with high bandwidth disk controllers) do rude things like hog the bus in order to get better Winbench scores. I found a problem like this with the open source VIA Xorg driver and it was quickly fixed by the developer. With closed drivers you're at the mercy of the vendor. Lee
