From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 18 17:10:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E033F14D52 for ; Tue, 18 May 1999 17:10:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20337; Tue, 18 May 1999 17:10:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 17:10:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" Cc: FreeBSD-Current Subject: Re: Sound Strangeness In-Reply-To: <004101bea131$8291df60$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message