Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:39:16 +0800 From: Ariff Abdullah <ariff@FreeBSD.org> To: Michael and Mary David <michael-and-mary@cutlets.info> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Skype on FreeBSD - distorted sound - Please help to solve Message-ID: <20060327113916.31bf90a4.ariff@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060327084136.2c1401d8@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060327084136.2c1401d8@localhost.localdomain>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:41:36 +0800 Michael and Mary David <michael-and-mary@cutlets.info> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This is Michael David and am new to this list. I have successfully > installed FreeBSD 6, 6.1 Beta 4 and PC BSD on my PC at different > times. However with all these, there is one application that is > really troublesome - SKYPE. > > I installed Skype from ports - Skype starts up successfully, I can > make calls, both myself and the other party can talk and hear each > other - however sound is terribly distorted. > > My PC specs are: > > 2.0 GHz Celeron > 512 MB RAM > Creative Sound Blaster Live - emu10k1 > > I do not have this problem with other applications - xmms, mplayer > etc all work fine and with good sound clarity. > > Please do kindly let me know how to solve this problem of distorted > sound with SKYPE. > > Please help me. > Try to increase default buffersize, put it in your /boot/device.hints hint.pcm.0.buffersize=xxxxx (8192 , 16384, 32768, 65536, choose) You need to reload snd_emu10k1 sound driver module, or reboot. Unless the problem solved, please give us following informations (refer to http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/BUG_REPORT ). -- Ariff Abdullah FreeBSD [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEJ15nlr+deMUwTNoRAm+4AJ9OFIEqqt+VCuPLI4DWFPtmYajG9wCgwpoL XAqlcAX5L1zpdFB9peNdeS8= =9aPY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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