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From: Ben Cottrell <benco@pendor.mckusick.com>
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To: jakob@teligent.se, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Which driver?
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> When I play sound it cracks and pops. Large samples, for example if I use
> mpg123 sound bad for a couple of seconds, then it's crystal clear sound.

I don't know what causes this, but the workaround is to use one 8-bit DMA
channel (DRQs 0-3) instead of two 16-bit ones.

mxaudio dumps core on me too, but it works fine for my friend Doug, running
nearly the same version of FreeBSD :-) I think it's nondeterministic.

Good luck!
	~Ben