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Date:      Sat, 20 Jan 2001 10:48:03 -0500
From:      "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        dmaddox@sc.rr.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pcm status
Message-ID:  <20010120104803.A327@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <200101201536.f0KFa2I53132@gratis.grondar.za>; from mark@grondar.za on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 05:36:08PM %2B0200
References:  <20010120094705.B12408@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <200101201536.f0KFa2I53132@gratis.grondar.za>

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If it helps at all, it's marginal.  I still get skips.

On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 05:36:08PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Please tell me if
> 
> sysctl -w kern.random.yarrow.bins=2
> makes a difference for you.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> M
> -- 
> Mark Murray
> Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn
> 
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