Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 12:18:22 -0400 From: "Andresen, Jason" <jandrese@mitre.org> To: "Alexander Leidinger" <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Call for testing: emu10kx driver for Creative sound cards Message-ID: <F9F038204EE77C4AA9959A6B3C94AFE8AEF13B@IMCSRV2.MITRE.ORG>
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I ran some tests with my SB Live! Value last night. Results: Sound volume is very low as per your comment. If I turn the mixer all the way up I can get an acceptable sound level out of it, but "loud" is right out. Honestly, I was expecting it to be low like the old emu10kx driver, but it appears to be even lower than that. Compared to Windows the sound volume is extremely low. The last ~600ms of the sound is still cut off. Short sounds don't play at all. I'm not sure this is a sound driver issue because it's persisted across three different revisions of the driver now (the emu10k1 in the kernel, existing emu10kx in the ports, and your experimental emu10kx port). There have been various workarounds for this problem, but none of them ever seem to make it into the sources permanently. Sound quality is excellent. I'm not hearing any crackling or popping or anything to suggest any misplaced bits. I don't have rear speakers attached to my system however, so that part remains untested. My card doesn't have SPDIF support AFAIK. =20
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