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From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>
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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
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