This also suffices to cease the skipping:

	while true; do false; done;

I also see this, by the way:

	May 19 15:15:51 andromeda kernel: psmouse.c: Mouse at
	isa0060/serio1/input0 lost
	 synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away.
	May 19 15:16:02 andromeda kernel: psmouse.c: Mouse at
	isa0060/serio1/input0 lost
	 synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
	May 19 15:16:03 andromeda kernel: psmouse.c: Mouse at
	isa0060/serio1/input0 lost
	 synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away.

But these don't correlate with the skips, which frequently happen even
when there's no kernel log entry for the mouse.  FWIW, that could be a
legitimate hardware problem, though it happens even when I'm using an
external mouse (laptop).

Justin

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 03:19:00PM -0400, pryzbyj wrote:
> The problem persists with 2.6.6 final, but get this: I was recompiling
> with preempt disabled (which didn't do anything to solve the problem),
> but during the compile, there were very few music skips / mouse skips.
> Not sure what that could mean though..