From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 5 7:59:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vectorstar.net (adsl-21-183-125.gnv.bellsouth.net [66.21.183.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F27EE37B419 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 07:59:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ash@localhost) by vectorstar.net (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g15FxNx60387 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 10:59:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ash@vectorstar.net) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 10:59:23 -0500 From: Austin hall To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VIA VT82C686A Sound problem Message-ID: <20020205105923.A55482@darkstar.bellsouth.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020205102614.A45495@darkstar.bellsouth.net> <20020205153643.GC2251@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020205153643.GC2251@raggedclown.net>; from cliff@raggedclown.net on Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:36:43PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 05 February Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:26:14AM -0500, Austin hall wrote: > > Ever since stable of around 4.4, I have been having strange sound > > problems. Whenever there is any CPU or disk activity my sound breaks > > up and beeps ands issues a series of other unpleasant sounds. It > > happens with both esound and the native OS driver support stuff, like > > with mpg123. I have tried increasing buffer size in XMMS and mpg123, > > but it has no noticeable effect. This is incredibly annoying? BTW, > > it does not do this in windows, so I doubt it's a hardware issue. > > > > Here is cat /dev/sndstat: > > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Jan 28 2002 13:37:37 Installed devices: pcm0: > > at io 0xdc00 irq 10 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex) > > > Mmm, where is the sound card ? It's builtin on the mobo. My manual says it is "Direct Sound AC97 Audio" and "Integrated Hardware Sound Blaster". > They are best placed in a slot as far away as possible from the CPU or > disk drives. > > Just a thought...although I suppose that would affect windows as well, > but who knows. > > IRQ's ? I think 10, since that's what /dev/sndstat listed. > -- > Regards > Cliff Austin -- First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message