From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 11 23:50:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA22373 for current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:50:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shadow.worldbank.org (shadow.worldbank.org [138.220.104.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA22355; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:50:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adhir@worldbank.org) Received: from localhost (adhir@localhost) by shadow.worldbank.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA13207; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:37:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from adhir@worldbank.org) X-Authentication-Warning: shadow.worldbank.org: adhir owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:37:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Alok K. Dhir" To: smp@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Sound trouble Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey all - I'm running FreeBSD 3.0-current with an SMP kernel on a Dell Workstation 400 with two 300Mhz P-II processors and 256megs ram. :-) The Workstation 400 has a Crystal CSS4236B sound chip on the motherboard. The only driver I've been able to get sound working with on this machine/kernel is "Luigi's" plug and play pcm driver. I couldn't get the "standard" Voxware drivers to work at all, and the OSS drivers (which I bought) don't work with SMP kernels (annoyingly enough). Luigi's sound driver works OK, but I'd like to see a more robust, complete sound solution for this machine. When I try to run "timidity" (the software wavetable midi player which used the GUS patch set), it starts out sounding nice for about half a second. Then it starts mixing in an incredible amount of noise until its completely unbearable to listen to. Similarly, some games (like xgal) make horrible noises... I wonder if this could have something to do with SMP? Other things, such as xanim, mpg123, and a few others render sound without any trouble. Does anyone have any suggestions? -------------------------------------------------------------------- \||/_ Alok K. Dhir Phone: +1.202.473.2446 oo \ R7-003, ITSMC Email: adhir@worldbank.org L_ The World Bank Group Washington, DC \/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------| "Unix _is_ user friendly - it just chooses friends selectively..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe current" in the body of the message