i have an extremely awesome soundcard...(no I'm not bragging)....Audigy 2 platinum, and i'm experiencing the lag. It's rarely more than half a second for me, though, so i just ignore it.

Anyways, the warning redhat gave me when trying to enable "use realtime priority" scared me away...lol

Have you tried installing those newer emu10k1 drivers?

err...linkage plz?