From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 25 13:06:37 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF6C216A417 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:06:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frankstaals@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F5DA13C442 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:06:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frankstaals@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 25 Nov 2007 13:06:29 -0000 Received: from ip176-173-59-62.adsl.versatel.nl (EHLO Rena.FStaals.net) [62.59.173.176] by mail.gmx.net (mp002) with SMTP; 25 Nov 2007 14:06:29 +0100 X-Authenticated: #25365336 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18mn4hC+B4mz10rUaDYFilaBd1iu2YeGddVXo+5kQ uYyJyUvvBQtTQ8 Message-ID: <47497317.5090406@gmx.net> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:05:27 +0100 From: Frank Staals User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Smith References: <47431E4D.3010702@gmx.net> <20071120182203.GA93313@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20071120182203.GA93313@slackbox.xs4all.nl> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: snd_ich skipping playback X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:06:37 -0000 Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:50:05PM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: > >> I updated to RELENG_7 yesterday, but I'm noticing that the snd_ich driver >> quite often skips playback for a short period of time at some points. >> Especially when doing mysql queries. Anyone else having problems with >> snd_ich ? >> >> frank@FStaals$ uname -a >> FreeBSD FStaals.net 7.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 #2: Mon Nov 19 19:50:46 CET >> 2007 root@FStaals.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PFSERVERKERNEL amd64 >> >> frank@FStaals$ pciconf -lv >> pcm0@pci0:0:4:0: class=0x040100 card=0x71851462 chip=0x005910de >> rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 >> vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' >> device = 'Realtek ALC850 Realtek AC'97 Audio' >> class = multimedia >> subclass = audio >> >> frank@FStaals$ dmesg | grep pcm >> pcm0: port 0xea00-0xeaff,0xee00-0xeeff mem >> 0xfe02d000-0xfe02dfff irq 23 at device 4.0 on pci0 >> pcm0: [ITHREAD] >> pcm0: >> > > I've had trouble with skipping sound some time ago on machines with > another chipset; > $ cat /dev/sndstat > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2007061600/amd64) > Installed devices: > pcm0: at io 0xd800 irq 22 [MPSAFE] (5p:4v/1r:1v channels > duplex default) > > I put the following in /boot/device.hints > > # Larger DMA buffer for the soundcard, for better sound quality. > hint.pcm.0.buffersize="16384" > > This fixed the problem for me. > > Roland > Ah thanks for the hint, but I'm guessing that won't work since aparently the buffersice is allready 16K : root@FStaals# sysctl -a | grep pcm dev.pcm.0.%desc: nVidia nForce4 dev.pcm.0.%driver: pcm dev.pcm.0.%location: slot=4 function=0 handle=\_SB_.PCI0.MACI dev.pcm.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x10de device=0x0059 subvendor=0x1462 subdevice=0x7185 class=0x040100 dev.pcm.0.%parent: pci0 dev.pcm.0.eapd: 1 dev.pcm.0.play.vchans: 1 dev.pcm.0.play.vchanrate: 48000 dev.pcm.0.play.vchanformat: s16le dev.pcm.0.rec.vchans: 1 dev.pcm.0.rec.vchanrate: 48000 dev.pcm.0.rec.vchanformat: s16le dev.pcm.0.buffersize: 16384 dev.pcm.0.ac97rate: 48000 Anyone else a hint ? -- -Frank Staals