Hi Alexan­der

I hope this com­ment will not be left unseen and it will get a response,
if there is a more appro­pri­ate method for leav­ing a com­ment to you,
let me know.

Cur­rent­ly using totem I’m play­ing some mp3’s.
sound: snd_ich
fbsd 6.2‑RC1/releng
xorg 7.2‑rc3
gnome 2.16.2

prob­lem 1
* I hear momen­tar­i­ly laps­es of sound, small breaks while
play­ing. Like the sound stream is dis­rupt­ed. This is experienced
while cpu is under heavy pres­sure, which is com­mon here.

I am won­der­ing if there is some­thing I can do to make the sound
stream flu­ent, or whether this is a gen­er­al prob­lem with the freebsd
sound system.

prob­lem 2
now while at it.. flash and sound. the linux/unix flash play­er sound
sys­tem is cur­rent­ly based on ALSA, the lin­ux sound sys­tem. is there
any devel­op­ment in the direc­tion of court­ing the flash developers
to con­sid­er sup­port­ing a freeb­sd sound sys­tem mod­el alongside
ALSA, or have there been con­sid­er­a­tions toward imlementing
an ALSA com­pat­i­bil­i­ty ‘lay­er’ ? Last I heard was that the flash
linux/unix team man­ag­er were open to oth­er unix sys­tems using
the flash plu­g­in if pos­si­ble (they changed from a license wording
that said it could only be used on Lin­ux to a more gen­er­al wording
that com­fort­ed the rest of the crowd, freeb­sd included).

keep up the good work.
Casper