From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 19 20: 2:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vectorstar.net (adsl-78-163-46.gnv.bellsouth.net [216.78.163.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A206437B400 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 20:02:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ash@localhost) by vectorstar.net (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g1K40nN14845 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 23:00:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ash@vectorstar.net) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 22:59:45 -0500 From: Austin Shaw Hall To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: randomly crackly/distorted audio... Message-ID: <20020219225945.A14595@darkstar.bellsouth.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have an MSI 6340M board with an AC97 sound chip builtin: FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Feb 11 2002 17:08:25 Installed devices: pcm0: at io 0xdc00 irq 10 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex) I run 4.5-stable. My problem is this: the smallest disk or CPU activity will cause audio playback to stutter and crackle. It is an extremely obnoxious sound to hear in the middle of a song. It sounds like a buffer underrun, however buffer adjustments in various mp3/wav playback have no effect. I did not have this problem with 4.3 release--it only started when I began tracking stable 4 or 5 months ago. If someone else has this problem, let me know; if you have a solution that would be even better though ;-) because this is driving me absolutely crazy. Austin -- Go climb a gravity well! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message