From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Feb 3 22:35:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BE5F37B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:35:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from purple.the-7.net (purple.the-7.net [209.126.178.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EAE443F9B for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:35:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ab@purple.the-7.net) Received: from purple.the-7.net (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by purple.the-7.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h146rg3m058529; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:53:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ab@purple.the-7.net) Received: (from ab@localhost) by purple.the-7.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h146rgOK058528; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:53:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ab) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:53:42 -0800 From: "Eugene M. Kim" To: Orion Hodson Cc: Jim Durham , freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Maestro 3 flakiness Message-ID: <20030204065341.GA57735@purple.the-7.net> References: <200302031038.43539.jimd@nepinc.com> <200302032258.h13MwE8J023524@puma.icir.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302032258.h13MwE8J023524@puma.icir.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-9.9 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.41 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've ran into similar troubles a couple of days ago with my Dell Inspiron 8000 running -current. I did a bit of research myself, and after pulling out about N hairs (where log2(N) >= 7) I found one workaround to this problem: As soon as you play something (I used `echo -n AA > /dev/dsp'), the recording should be back in shape. On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 02:58:14PM -0800, Orion Hodson wrote: > If you have the stomach for it, I'd recommend grabbing the specs and comparing > the ALSA and FBSD versions of the driver. There may be differences in the > initialization code that give a clue to what the root of the problem is. The thing is, the spec available online (from ALSA) doesn't seem to explain programming interface of specific firmware images. I couldn't find any reference documentation for the GPL'ed firmware the FreeBSD driver uses. Regards, Eugene To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message