Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 14:37:24 -0400 From: Rick <ric@home.com> To: Pieter Westland <pieter@nl.euro.net>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xmame, pcm0 and sound Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990510143724.012bad40@mail> In-Reply-To: <19990510162446.E22840@support.euronet.nl>
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Have you tried iNES, i am also using pcm0 and sound is really crappy using ines. -Rick At 04:24 PM 5/10/99 +0200, Pieter Westland wrote: >Hi, > >I'm a happy user of xmame :) >The only problem with it is the sound. The sounds are cool, but much to slow >(high latency). >I contacted the maintainer of the xmame-project (Hans de Goede), and he told >me that more FreeBSD-users have problems with xmame and sound. In the mailing- >list-archive I could not find anything about this problem. > >I use Luigi's sound driver (pcm0), with this kernel-config: > >device pcm0 at isa? port ? tty irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15 > >Some examples when starting xmame: > >-fragsize 4: > >Setting fragsize to 8, numfrags to 5 >Fragsize = 40, Numfrags = 1632 > >-fragsize 128: > >Setting fragsize to 256, numfrags to 5 >Fragsize = 256, Numfrags = 255 > >It seems that when xmame.x11 asks a fragsize of 128, FreeBSD doubles it. And, >worse, when xmame asks a numfrags of 5, it doesn't use that number of numfrags >either. >Hans told me that this is the reason of the poor sound in xmame. > >Xmame-version: X-Mame-0.35b12.1 >System: AMDK6-233, 64 Mb, FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE (23-4-1999). > >Does anyone have a clue? > >Thanks, > >Pieter >-- >Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: > There's always one more bug. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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