From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 23:19:47 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9D5A16A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:19:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp13.wxs.nl (smtp13.wxs.nl [195.121.6.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 438AA43D5A for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:19:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from ronald.echteman.nl (ip51cdc5d2.speed.planet.nl [81.205.197.210])2004))freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:19:46 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 22826 invoked from network); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:19:44 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.thuis.klop.ws) (192.168.1.4) by ronald.echteman.nl with SMTP; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:19:44 +0000 Received: (qmail 948 invoked from network); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:19:25 +0000 Received: from localhost (HELO smtp.local) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:19:25 +0000 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:19:23 +0100 From: Ronald Klop In-reply-to: <200501190003.20614.olivier.certner@free.fr> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Opera M2/7.54u1 (FreeBSD, build 892) References: <41ECC3A7.8040300@ISI.EDU> <200501190003.20614.olivier.certner@free.fr> Subject: Re: poor sound quality in 5.3 stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:19:47 -0000 On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:03:20 +0100, Olivier Certner wrote: > Hi, > > Do you mean that the sound seems unclear all the time? > > I've also had some problems with sound on my FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE, but a > different kind of. Sometimes I hear crakings while playing mp3 files with > XMMS, although my computer's load is very low. I use "snd_emu10k1" sound > module as you do with a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1. > > There is another driver that may be worth trying here: > http://chibis.persons.gfk.ru/audigy/. I'll give it a pick when I get more > time. I have problems also with sb live. There was discussion before that increasing some buffer in the driver made the problem less. And enabling PREEMPTION would help also. But since the last discussion I got my onboard audio (ESS) working, which is ok for me. I also wondered that the snd_emu10k1 is marked as MPSAFE, while other sound drivers aren't, but the others perform better. But I don't know if it has anything to do with it. Search the archives for more discussion about this. Ronald. -- Ronald Klop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands