From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 23 16:18:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 EC44F16AA1B; Tue, 23 May 2006 16:18:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from smtp-bedford.mitre.org (smtpproxy1.mitre.org [192.160.51.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F64843D45; Tue, 23 May 2006 16:18:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from smtp-bedford.mitre.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-bedford.mitre.org (8.12.11.20060308/8.11.6) with SMTP id k4NGIUOI022364; Tue, 23 May 2006 12:18:30 -0400 Received: from smtp-bedford.mitre.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-bedford.mitre.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADDEABF7B; Tue, 23 May 2006 12:18:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from imcfe2.MITRE.ORG (imcfe2.mitre.org [129.83.29.4]) by smtp-bedford.mitre.org (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4NGIUZK022339; Tue, 23 May 2006 12:18:30 -0400 Received: from IMCSRV2.MITRE.ORG ([129.83.20.164]) by imcfe2.MITRE.ORG with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 23 May 2006 12:18:30 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 12:18:22 -0400 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Call for testing: emu10kx driver for Creative sound cards thread-index: AcZ+e3rf6LYUeNbLS3+PGsSroyuB4wAB3XWg From: "Andresen, Jason" To: "Alexander Leidinger" , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 May 2006 16:18:30.0073 (UTC) FILETIME=[877FF290:01C67E84] Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Call for testing: emu10kx driver for Creative sound cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 23 May 2006 16:18:36 -0000 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