Hello, first of all, red hat 8.0 is very very nice. So thank you Red Hat ;) Second, since upgrading to Red Hat 8.0, I've been having a lot more problems with audio dropouts than I used to have in 7.2 or 7.3. I used stock kernels on both 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0, and every audio app I use (xmms, rhythmbox, gst-player) has this problem. I have tried with both OSS sound output, ALSA oss emulation, and pure ALSA. pure ALSA gives the best result up to now, but still unacceptably worse than with 7.3. The machine is a Toshiba Tecra 8200, the sound card is a Yamaha (using the ymipfc driver). No need to tell me it is crap, I am fully aware of that, but I would expect to be able to at least have it play back without dropouts like it used to. Dropouts happen quite randomly but probably linked to some action somewhere - most notably sometimes during workspace switching, opening a new tab in galeon, or starting an application like evolution. I have been given some suggestions on what could be causing it, with the two most likely (according to people) being pci bus starvation because of the video card not releasing the pci bus often enough, and kernel scheduling problems. My question is : has anyone encountered a similar decrease in performance between 7.3 and 8.0, and does anyone know how I can go about figuring out and solving the two most likely reasons mentioned to me, or any other major thing that might be different between the two kernels (since they're both 2.4.18, the difference is probably in one of the patches or the configuration). Thanks Thomas -- The Dave/Dina Project : future TV today ! - http://davedina.apestaart.org/ <-*- thomas (dot) apestaart (dot) org -*-> Just like you said you leave my life I'm better off dead <-*- thomas (at) apestaart (dot) org -*-> URGent, the best radio on the Internet - 24/7 ! - http://urgent.rug.ac.be/ -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
