From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Mar 23 20:43:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C495D37B63C for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 20:43:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA49754; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 23:41:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 23:41:13 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Randall Hopper Cc: Conrad Sabatier , freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, Ken Marx Subject: Re: Lost interrupts in snd0 ? In-Reply-To: <20000323225155.A2570@ipass.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Randall Hopper wrote: > Conrad Sabatier: > |Randall Hopper wrote: > |> 2) I also see much longer skips with mtv (the same mtv executable and > |> same MPEG streams) than I did with 3.4R. It behaves like some bad > |> changes were made to the SNDCTL_DSP_GETOSPACE or related buffer-query > |> calls. > | > |Same here. Only in my most recent 3.4-STABLE build have I ever gotten > |the infamous "DMA timeout - IRQ/DRQ config error?" message with my AWE 64. > | > |Also still seeing some chop, after reverting back from 4.0, but with a new > |cvsup of 3.4-STABLE. Apparently, the changes to the sound drivers were > |fairly recent, as my previous STABLE kernel, built around Mar 8 or so, had > |no such problems. > > Interesting. Thanks for letting me know. I'd love to know what the patch > that did it was. I plan to diff sources after I make it through this > semester and get back up to 3.2-R levels. > > Also, I've never supped CVS so I'm a little leary of doing that. Is this > recommended for someone with a pixie-straw connection to the net (56k modem)? > Or just the fat pipe folks. Randall, the thinner your pipe, the more you want cvsup. I tell you right now, you will be completely amazed at how fast it goes. I have only a 33.6, and I usually cvsup in less than 6 minutes. Hows that? Seriously, go get your feet wet! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message