> I get the same behaviour as when I tried to enable long DMA transfers.
> The symptom is that sometimes playing 16 bit sounds just produces
> noise.

I don't buy that.  I had the `static' problem *before* I enabled burst
DMA.

> A little further investigation reveals that the bytes that
> are play are swapped [...]

As I said, I believe something is not flushing the FIFO correctly.