From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Mar 30 7:35:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B52637B405 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 07:35:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from vilnya.demon.co.uk ([158.152.19.238]) by anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16rKqc-000DLd-0W; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:32:56 +0000 Received: from haveblue (haveblue.rings [10.2.4.64]) by vilnya.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 70D6B10789; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:30:53 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <004001c1d7ff$e85b3b90$4004020a@haveblue> From: "Cameron Grant" To: "Adam D. Gorski" , "John Utz" Cc: References: Subject: Re: SB problem (was: Cat'ing /dev/audio) SOLVED!!! Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:31:05 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 > somehow my BIOS got reset... I must have caused some sort of power surge and > it wiped it. I checked all settings and noted that all were as I always had > them, except something called "PCI Bus timer" or something like that... I > had it set to 0 (don't remember ever chaning it though), now it was 32. I > figure why mess with BIOS defaults that I know nothing about, so I left it. > I booted into FreeBSD, and just for the hell of it, I tried an mp3... sweet > monkey's uncle! It worked! Not a crackle, not a squeek, nothing! Pure > crystal music! > > So uhm... what solved it? I guess manually resetting the BIOS... that's > about the only thing I can think of. Maybe somehow, somwhere, over the past > few years I changed something that Linux accepted (or ignored the dumb > luser), but BSD took seriously... no clue. Either way, I just wanted to > update you all with this (short story), and thank you all for responding! I > am on my way to tweaking this box more, now that I can listen to some pretty > music while doing it :) that's the default latency timer; it controls how long a card gets to hold on to the bus each time it gains control. it can be overriden on a per card basis which the linux driver may do- we rely on the bios to set things up correctly. basically your box was ripping the bus out from under the soundcard in mid-transfer. -cg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message