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Date:      Tue, 18 May 1999 17:10:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Sound Strangeness
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905181709430.5905-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <004101bea131$8291df60$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com>

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On Tue, 18 May 1999, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:

> I have a Yamaha-SA3 card built into my motherboard.  I uses the pcm drivers
> for sound.  My system is current as of two days ago.
> 
> I just installed KDE-1.1.1 (curious about performance) and I was testing out
> the one and only sound that seems to come with it.  It seems that the sound
> device is buffering sound for a long period of time.  The first time sound
> is set to the audio device it plays right away.  The second and subsequent
> time that sound is sent to the device there is a considerable delay before
> the sound is played.  I believe the files are just .wav (pcm) files.  Has
> anybody else experienced this and can it be blamed upon KDE or is it a
> driver problem.  I don't recall having this problem under Linux, but I can't
> remember if it was KDE 1.1.1 or KDE 1.1 that I had installed at that time,
> so I am not sure if that rules out KDE or not.

This is usually indicitive of a resource problem with your soundcard (bad
IRQ).  Check your settings.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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