Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 04:17:05 +0800 From: Ariff Abdullah <ariff@FreeBSD.org> To: Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@wait4.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org, Alexander@Leidinger.net Subject: Re: kern/107516: emu10k1 - skips, clicks and lag after a day of heavy usage Message-ID: <20070106041705.582366b8.ariff@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20070105093418.a4622c72.rnsanchez@wait4.org> References: <200701041640.l04GeNAk043403@freefall.freebsd.org> <20070105092343.aeywvr2jack4oc0w@webmail.leidinger.net> <20070105093418.a4622c72.rnsanchez@wait4.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:34:18 -0200 Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@wait4.org> wrote: > On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:23:43 +0100 > Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> wrote: > > > > Repeatable both with emu10k1 and emu10kx (from ports) drivers, > > > using > > > "play" command (audio/sox), and either with the 4 KB buffer or > > > larger. > > > > Please download the appropriate stuff from > > http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/lowlatency/ and try if to > > reproduce the problem. Please report back how it works. > > I've just installed it, and got *much* better results now. My test > case consisted on playing 50 times in a row a short wav file I'm > very used to hear. The files: > > [1] RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 8 bit, > mono 22050 Hz [2] RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft > PCM, 16 bit, stereo 22050 Hz > [3] 2 seconds of mute (in Audacity) > [4] 2 seconds of 0.1 amplitude sine wave (Audacity) > [5] Audacity, 22050 Hz, 16 bit, mono, with 0.05 s of silence > followed by 1 second of 0.1 amplitude sine > > The results: > > [1] 10 out of 50 were slightly different from the original/expected > sound, but without randomness (the 10 sounded like it had higher > tones filtered out) > > [2] No differences perceived throughout the 50 playbacks, very hard > to tell if there are glitches in the very beginning, due to the > nature of the sound played (I'd say there wasn't any glitches). > > [3] Pure mute. > > [4] Glitch (sounding like a very quick "click") in the very > beginning, no distortions after. > > [5] No glitches like in [4] -- very good. The 0.05 s offset from > the beginning avoided the glitch. > > > With XMMS, I couldn't notice anything weird, neither glitches in the > very beginning of playback (perhaps XMMS does a better job preparing > for playback?). > > With Psi (Jabber client), the sounds played suffer from the [4] > issue. It's using sox's play command as the player. > > Please upload all your test samples somewhere so it can be analyzed. Few of these are probably due to specific driver issues (snd_emu10k1). How about snd_emu10kx ? There are still few pending fixes that need to be applied for snd_emu10kx (Yuriy Tsibizov is the current maintainer for this driver) I'm particularly interested in [1] (need a serious double blind test to rule out placebo effect caused by hearing tardiness) and [4] (specific driver issue). Thanks for your effort on doing various of these tests. > Relevant sysctl output as of now: > % sysctl -a | egrep 'snd|pcm' > hw.snd.latency_profile: 1 > hw.snd.latency: 5 > hw.snd.report_soft_formats: 1 > hw.snd.feeder_buffersize: 16384 > hw.snd.feeder_fmt_downmix: 0 > hw.snd.feeder_rate_round: 25 > hw.snd.feeder_rate_max: 2016000 > hw.snd.feeder_rate_min: 1 > hw.snd.verbose: 1 > hw.snd.sndstat_isopen: 0 > hw.snd.maxautovchans: 4 > hw.snd.default_unit: 0 > dev.pcm.0.%desc: Creative EMU10K1 > dev.pcm.0.%driver: pcm > dev.pcm.0.%location: slot=10 function=0 > dev.pcm.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x1102 device=0x0002 subvendor=0x1102 > subdevice=0x8061 class=0x040100 dev.pcm.0.%parent: pci0 > dev.pcm.0.eapd: 1 > dev.pcm.0.buffersize: 4096 > dev.pcm.0.vchans: 1 > dev.pcm.0.vchanrate: 48000 > dev.pcm.0.vchanformat: s16le > > % kldstat > Id Refs Address Size Name > 1 15 0xc0400000 691928 kernel > 2 2 0xc0a92000 1aff0 linux.ko > 3 1 0xc0aad000 71ac snd_emu10k1.ko > 4 3 0xc0ab5000 3c330 sound.ko > 5 1 0xc0af2000 4a59d4 nvidia.ko > 6 1 0xc0f98000 58554 acpi.ko > 7 1 0xc3a8e000 e000 ext2fs.ko > 8 1 0xc3bd0000 2000 blank_saver.ko > > > Hope that helps. :) > > Regards. > > ps: please keep me in Cc: as I'm not subscribed to multimedia@. > -- Ariff Abdullah FreeBSD ... Recording in stereo is obviously too advanced and confusing for us idiot ***** users :P ........ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFnrJElr+deMUwTNoRAoQ5AJ9c0PJKILL6RE8CH0JTBe0569uUqQCeIJhV ceQknAEUmfCTPvybOKFvOLc= =t8ZM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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