[mimo mimo@restoel.net] (...) | kde 2.1 and xfree 4.2 (yes I know I'm a latest-version-junkee). I do | personally think that it's because of the alsa-driver, which seems to be | some | kind of troublesome.
I had some static indeed when running pd with alsa's oss emulation but they disappeared completly when using pd -alsa (and -rt)
(As mentionned before it may be your Xfree video card driver too, check the man page for it for a "PciRetry" option)