Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:12:37 -0800 From: Nicholas Esborn <nick@flatlan.net> To: Conrad Sabatier <cjsabatier@home.com> Cc: Nicholas Esborn <nick@netdot.net>, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pcm (ES1370) crackling on Athlon, 4.2-STABLE Message-ID: <20010212171237.A14526@flatlan.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010212190305.cjsabatier@home.com>; from cjsabatier@home.com on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:03:05PM -0600 References: <20010212123259.A12360@flatlan.net> <XFMail.010212190305.cjsabatier@home.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] The audio was worse when I played through esound... I saw posts about this earlier. But audio players not linked against esound do this as well. -nick On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:03:05PM -0600, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > On 12-Feb-01 Nicholas Esborn wrote: > > Hey folks. > > > > I recently upgraded from a Celeron 300A/440BX to an Athlon 800/VIA 82C686A. > > My ES1370 sound card worked fine with the Celeron, but does not work well at > > all in the Athlon system; it crackles a bit under light system load, and > > makes horrible slowed-down grinding noises if the CPU is very busy. > > > > The VIA board comes with an on-board AC97 code, which I tried, but turned off > > because it didn't seem to support any useful sample frequencies and was very > > noisy. > > > > I've seen a few posts from people having similar problems. I don't think I > > have any interrupt conflicts, at least not between simultaneously active > > devices. I've juggled the box's cards and BIOS settings quite a bit, but > > haven't been able to get better performance. Is this a problem with the VIA > > chipset support? > > Which audio programs exactly are you using? I was having problems recently > with MP3 playback, and thought at first that it was a problem with the pcm > driver. As it turned out, there's a problem with esound (I was using an mpg123 > built with esound support). > > Try using a simple wave file player, like "play" or "waveplay", and see if you > still notice the same problems. If not, then your MP3 player is probably > linked with esound, which is the real culprit. > > -- > Conrad Sabatier > cjsabatier@home.com > [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6iIoEV3GAM4uE438RAtuYAJ9XuuqbK66WwcW9r8ZjzF9Vjpc3QwCdEoJU RCcvxUXYstuo9xpu6fJpy2U= =fQbm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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