> This happens for me on an Athlon tower, but only if system is quite busy
> (e.g., running abcde).  Doing exactly the same kind of work on a much less
> powerful laptop (233 Pentium) does not cause the same kind of
> buffer-swapping---though more normal skipping sometimes happens if the
> buffers starve.

Oh, and the laptop was using a NeoMagic chipset, not VIA.  (So it wasn't
using the auvia driver...)  ...lest you think that the auvia driver is
known not to have troubles on some systems.  (^&


  ``I probably don't know what I'm talking about.'' --rauch@math.rice.edu