Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 17:57:29 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: K.J.Bosschaart@tue.nl Cc: Tom Kyle <tom@eos.umsl.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scratchy SB PCI 128 Message-ID: <20001006175729.C252@parish> In-Reply-To: <20001006114618.A79736@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>; from karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl on Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:46:18AM %2B0200 References: <200010051725.e95HPob01817@eos.umsl.edu> <200010051740.e95Hef802041@eos.umsl.edu> <20001006114618.A79736@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:46:18AM +0200, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 05:40:41PM +0000, Tom Kyle wrote: > > 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. > > > It's pretty weird... I'm hearing the scratchy sound as well on a PCI128 > (es1370). It has always been on that machine, starting from 3.2 and it still > does in 4.1.1. In Windows, sound is perfect, so hardware should be OK. On > other machines, I have another es1370 that has worked perfectly since 3.1 > up to 4.1. > I noted that the scratching gets worse when there is a lot of disk activity > (that was in 3.2). Also, I changed irq for the card (by reserving the irq > in the BIOS for ISA, so it's forced to use another one) and it has the > same scratch. > I don't really know where to search... :-(. The system having trouble is > SCSI only, while the other systems have also IDE or are IDE only. Don't > know if that could be a clue. Hmm, don't think so. I keep reading about problems with SB PCI128's yet mine has *always* worked fine under -STABLE (3.x and 4.x). I've got an all-SCSI system too. One thing though that might be a clue; mine is actually a PCI128 Value. I believe that the "value" was added when they brought the Live! card out and also the Value cards have fewer sockets on the backplate than the non-Value ones (so slightly different hardware?). pcm0: <AudioPCI ES1371> port 0x6800-0x683f irq 11 at device 11.0 on pci0 > I think this 'scratch problem' has come up several times, but I never saw > a solution. > > Karel. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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