Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:53:37 -0700 From: Travis Poppe <tlp@LiquidX.org> To: Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD sound distortion problems with SB Live! fixed with PREEMPTION Message-ID: <20041208125337.3882898a@maya.liquidx.org> In-Reply-To: <1102506431.1090.8.camel@taxman> References: <20041207234840.7287cdf4@maya.liquidx.org> <1102506431.1090.8.camel@taxman>
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On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:47:11 +0100 Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 23:48 -0700, Travis Poppe wrote: > ... > > To my amazement, it worked completely. Enabling PREEMPTION in the > > kernel completely "fixes" this problem to the fullest extent. I have > > not been able to reproduce the problem since using any of the > > methods described above. > > > > I'm hoping that with this new information someone might be able to > > figure out what is truly causing this problem and can come up with a > > solution (or is PREEMPTION a good solution?). It seems that only a > > handful of drivers (emu10k1 is the one I'm having problems with) > > have this problem. For the record, I am not the only one who has > > reported this problem to the lists. > > I also experience the same problems with sound you've described. > > As PREEMPTION seems to stable for you, I tried to turn it on again. > > Unfortunately PREEMPTION remains to be completely unusable for me. The > system freezes within 5 minutes. > > The problem is described here: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-September/037949.html This is the first time I've ever used PREEMPTION and have so far experienced zero problems with it. However, I've been using it for less than 24 hours. -Travis Poppe
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