Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:41:27 +0000 From: "C. G." <funmol@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: ASUS P5KPL-AM motherboard on-board sound laggs Message-ID: <COL105-W14DE6459E3E823A3D925F9DC9B0@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <201209181348.q8IDm8P1099595@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <COL105-W29A1572465530F6A8046CCDC950@phx.gbl>, <201209181348.q8IDm8P1099595@lurza.secnetix.de>
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> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:48:08 +0200
> From: olli@lurza.secnetix.de
> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; funmol@hotmail.com
> CC:
> Subject: Re: ASUS P5KPL-AM motherboard on-board sound laggs
>
> C. G. <funmol@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > My motherboard's integrated sound chipset works, but when I watch a
> > film, it only works fluently when the film is in a small window. As
> > soon I enlarge the video player's window or maximize the film, the
> > sound laggs a lot, and the video, too. But I think the problem comes
> > from the sound driver and not from my graphics card nor it's driver
> > because it's an nVidia GeForce 9800GT which works perfectly and it's
> > driver, too. I don't have this problem with the same computer on
> > Linux or Windows, just FreeBSD.
>
> I don't think your sound driver or audio hardware is to
> blame. The fact that the problem depends on the size of
> the window indicates that it is probably related to the
> 2D video acceleration, i.e. hardware scaler. I suspect
> that you're using software scaling.
>
> Please install the "xvinfo" tool from ports or packages.
> It displays the status of the XVideo extension. The
> output should look like this for hardware acceleration:
>
> X-Video Extension version 2.2
> screen #0
> Adaptor #0: "Radeon Textured Video"
>
> Of course the string ("Radeon") may vary, depending on
> your graphics hardware. If you get an error message or
> a string indicating software rendering, then that's
> causing your video playback problem. In that case you
> should check your Xorg configuration and maybe update
> your Xorg video drivers.
>
> Best regards
> Oliver
>
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Here is the output of the "xvinfo" command as you requested :
[root@PC-BSD] ~# xvinfo
xvinfo: Unable to open display
Sorry...
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