From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 12 08:58:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E0116A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:58:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from opiate.soulwax.net (CPE0010a702d464-CM000039ae486b.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [63.139.24.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4078B43D31 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:57:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chopra@opiate.soulwax.net) Received: by opiate.soulwax.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C077540AD; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:58:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:58:22 -0500 From: Munish Chopra To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031212165822.GC48271@opiate.soulwax.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20031212104433.GA803@galgenberg.net> <1071237706.970.41.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1071237706.970.41.camel@localhost> Subject: Re: audio lag in 5.2-Beta (card emu10k1) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:58:00 -0000 On 2003-12-12 08:01 +0000, Ryan Sommers wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 04:44, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > > Another useless "me too", I experienced this behaviour when I switched > > from -STABLE to 5.1-RELEASE. Ever since that day xmms playback more or > > less sucks. Playing/Skipping/Pausing lags about 1-2 seconds. When doing > > a 'make extract' in the Mozilla or Thunderbird or Java or Openoffice > > ports it starts stuttering and slowing down the MP3 playback. > > > > It can't be the Harddisk, because most of my MP3s are coming over > > NFS... > > > > Ulrich Spörlein > > Just curious but are you running with a debug kernel and were you before > on -STABLE? If yes to the first part have you tried running a kernel > without all the extra debugging code? > A whole bunch of people have been experiencing this over the past two or three months, even without debugging features. I'd guess there've been about ten threads about it so far. Nobody has been able to pinpoint exactly what's going on. There seem to be two different problems: 1) The above "lag", including the fact that if you, for instance, extract a large tarball, playback slows down and stutters. 2) The crackling when starting to play a file. There are some other symptoms here too that I don't remember, but Kris and at least one other person are experiencing this. Beyond that, several people (including me) noticed odd popping noises a few seconds apart when playing any kind of audio. They're especially noticeable if you play something fairly mellow. -- Munish Chopra