From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 5 15:40:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eos.umsl.edu (eos.umsl.edu [134.124.42.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C260437B66D for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 15:40:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tom@localhost) by eos.umsl.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e95Hef802041 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 17:40:41 GMT (envelope-from tom) From: Tom Kyle Message-Id: <200010051740.e95Hef802041@eos.umsl.edu> Subject: Re: scratchy SB PCI 128 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 17:40:41 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <200010051725.e95HPob01817@eos.umsl.edu> from "Tom Kyle" at Oct 05, 2000 05:25:50 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Whoops - should have checked this before posting, but I'm still perplexed: Apparently this happens when the load avg goes above 1.0. I dropped out of X, killed most everything off (including SETI), and was able to play some files just fine. After some checking, it seems to be dependent on the load avg. Ie, when the average goes about 1.00, the audio becomes distorted. Funky. Still, what is causing this? I've never experienced this with Linux or OpenBSD, but then again I'd previously stuck to SB64 and SB16PnP's. Tom > > Hi, > > I'm running 4.1.1-RELEASE with an SB PCI 128, and I've been having some > problems with the pcm driver (apparently). Playing any kind of generated > sound (.WAV, .MP3, etc etc), there's a VERY irritating nails-on-the-blackboard > noise, which doesn't happen when playing, say, straight CD audio. > > The output from 'cat /dev/sndstat' is: > > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Oct 1 2000 01:21:11 > Installed devices: > pcm0: at io 0x9400 irq 10 (1p/1r channels duplex) > > Anyone have any suggestions? > > Tom > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message