Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:50:09 -0600 From: Travis Poppe <tlpbsd@gmail.com> To: Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@freebsd.org> Cc: Travis Poppe <tlp@liquidx.org> Subject: Re: Mild sound distortion with FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 Message-ID: <9533da6c0410261550432bb1d5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1098771878.63451.5.camel@localhost> References: <20041019111518.1f6a76a4@maya.liquidx.org> <1098771878.63451.5.camel@localhost>
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Thanks! This seems to be an effective workaround for the problem. However, what causes it in the first place? I don't recall having a problem with any of this in the 4.X series (the default buffer worked fine). -Travis On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:24:38 -0400, Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 13:15, Travis Poppe wrote: > > I've recently noticed a mild sound distortion in XMMS and other > > applications that output sound. I'm not sure when I started noticing > > this, but I don't believe it has always been present in the 5.x branch > > (and if it has, I haven't noticed it up until a month or two ago). > > You should be able to fix it by using a bigger buffer. To do this, > change line 48 of src/sys/dev/sound/pci/emu10k1.c from: > > #define EMU_DEFAULT_BUFSZ 4096 > > To something like: > > #define EMU_DEFAULT_BUFSZ 8192 > > and recompile the kernel/modules. If this doesn't work, you can also try > using an even bigger buffer size, such as 16384, but then, you will have > a noticeable delay between the time you press play and start hearing the > music (it shouldn't be too bad, unless you play games). > > Bye. > -- > Suleiman Souhlal | ssouhlal@vt.edu > The FreeBSD Project | ssouhlal@FreeBSD.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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