Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:43:18 +0300 From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr> To: Russell Jackson <rjackson@cserv62.csub.edu> Cc: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> Subject: Re: [Fwd: sound in CURRENT] Message-ID: <4129D856.20600@ebs.gr> In-Reply-To: <20040823092644.GA46822@vala.homelan.net> References: <1093108393.4202.8.camel@funshine.carebears.net> <20040821133701.6ecf9f04@dolphin.local.net> <20040822040453.GA11878@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <1093148651.47618.3.camel@server.mcneil.com> <20040823092644.GA46822@vala.homelan.net>
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Russell Jackson wrote: > To chime in on the sound issue, I get seemingly random distortions or > screeches during playback. A sure fire way to cause it on demand is to > do a sysctl -a. I've also found that taking the battery out and running > on A/C only reduces the frequency of the distortions. > > You may have gathered that this is a laptop based on the fact that it > has a battery. Sound is provided by an Acer Labs M5451 using t4dwave driver. > > On the other side of the spectrum, sound plays back perfectly on my > workstation. Just as a datapoint, ever since I added the following line to /boot/device.hints my sound experience has been greatly improved: hint.pcm.0.buffersize="16384"
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