According to Sujal Patel:
>
>This is true, and it'll be interesting to see how the Linux folks 
>actually implemented this because Linux Quake uses this technique for sound 
>effects, and I'm sure NetBSD will support Quake fully soon :-)
>

If I have my way it will ;-)

>I would think that the kernel could give you the current position of the 
>buffer pointer, and then you'd place your sound "sufficiently" far in 
>front of it.  This would be sorta messy though.
>

I have a pointer to the linux driver code now - will have a look at
that and see what I can do....

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