21 Jun
2006
21 Jun
'06
8:45 p.m.
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