From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 3 18:51:55 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C3271065676 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 2010 18:51:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-multimedia@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22F6E8FC12 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 2010 18:51:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NRVE2-0003Lm-Gg for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:30:50 +0100 Received: from 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz ([90.178.41.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:30:50 +0100 Received: from gamato by 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:30:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:30:29 +0100 Lines: 97 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20100102 SeaMonkey/2.0.1 Sender: news Subject: Audible clicks with ICH4 AC'97 X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:51:55 -0000 Hi list, I've upgraded from 6.4 to 8.0 and hoped that my long-time issue will be gone but no, I'm still experiencing the same audio distortion -- Playing music on FreeBSD reminds me of old tapes while listening to the same files on MS Windows produces no acoustic clicks etc at all. Well, I cannot hear these clicks during music but throughout low volume passages they are quite audible and they stop when playback stops. I still hope something can be done about it. Any suggestions / ideas please ? Cheers, Martin -- $ uname -a FreeBSD mb-aw1n-bsd 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009 root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 $ pciconf -lv | grep -B 4 audio pcm0@pci0:0:31:5: class=0x040100 card=0x18431043 chip=0x24c58086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Realtek AC97 Audio (82801DBM SoundMAXController (ICH4-M B0 step))' class = multimedia subclass = audio $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2009061500/i386) Installed devices: pcm0: at io 0xffaff800, 0xffaff400 irq 5 bufsz 16384 kld snd_ich [MPSAFE] (1p:4v/1r:1v channels duplex default) $ sysctl hw.snd dev.pcm hw.snd.feeder_rate_quality: 1 hw.snd.feeder_rate_round: 25 hw.snd.feeder_rate_max: 2016000 hw.snd.feeder_rate_min: 1 hw.snd.feeder_rate_polyphase_max: 183040 hw.snd.feeder_rate_presets: 100:8:0.85 100:36:0.92 100:164:0.97 hw.snd.feeder_eq_exact_rate: 0 hw.snd.feeder_eq_presets: PEQ:16000,0.2500,62,0.2500:-9,9,1.0:44100,48000,88200,96000,176400,192000 hw.snd.vpc_reset: 0 hw.snd.vpc_0db: 45 hw.snd.vpc_autoreset: 1 hw.snd.latency_profile: 1 hw.snd.latency: 5 hw.snd.report_soft_matrix: 1 hw.snd.report_soft_formats: 1 hw.snd.compat_linux_mmap: 0 hw.snd.vpc_mixer_bypass: 1 hw.snd.verbose: 1 hw.snd.maxautovchans: 16 hw.snd.default_unit: 0 hw.snd.version: 2009061500/i386 hw.snd.default_auto: 0 dev.pcm.0.%desc: Intel ICH4 (82801DB) dev.pcm.0.%driver: pcm dev.pcm.0.%location: slot=31 function=5 handle=\_SB_.PCI0.AUDI dev.pcm.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x8086 device=0x24c5 subvendor=0x1043 subdevice=0x1843 class=0x040100 dev.pcm.0.%parent: pci0 dev.pcm.0.eapd: 1 dev.pcm.0.play.vchans: 4 dev.pcm.0.play.vchanmode: fixed dev.pcm.0.play.vchanrate: 48000 dev.pcm.0.play.vchanformat: s16le:2.0 dev.pcm.0.rec.vchans: 1 dev.pcm.0.rec.vchanmode: fixed dev.pcm.0.rec.vchanrate: 48000 dev.pcm.0.rec.vchanformat: s16le:2.0 dev.pcm.0.buffersize: 16384 dev.pcm.0.bitperfect: 0 dev.pcm.0.ac97rate: 48000 dev.pcm.0.wake: 0 $ mixer Mixer vol is currently set to 75:75 Mixer pcm is currently set to 25:25 Mixer speaker is currently set to 40:40 Mixer line is currently set to 75:75 Mixer mic is currently set to 0:0 Mixer cd is currently set to 75:75 Mixer rec is currently set to 0:0 Mixer igain is currently set to 0:0 Mixer ogain is currently set to 50:50 Mixer line1 is currently set to 75:75 Mixer phin is currently set to 0:0 Mixer phout is currently set to 0:0 Mixer video is currently set to 75:75 Recording source: mic