From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 14 20:55:34 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D31F16A421 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:55:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Tad1214@aol.com) Received: from imo-m21.mx.aol.com (imo-m21.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2032B13C467 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:55:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Tad1214@aol.com) Received: from Tad1214@aol.com by imo-m21.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r9.3.) id n.c9f.1b294238 (45284) for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:55:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from Cardinal.donnelly.servebeer.com. (mail.gertens.com [68.178.61.59]) by ciaaol-m05.mx.aol.com (v120.9) with ESMTP id MAILCIAAOLM052-b0e4473b60bc2ae; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:55:25 -0500 Message-ID: <473B60B6.9040901@aol.com> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:55:18 -0600 From: Thomas Donnelly User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070828) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AOL-IP: 68.178.61.59 X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) X-Spam-Flag: NO Subject: Re: snd_hda extremely choppy on 7-beta2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:55:34 -0000 Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos wrote: >> From: Thomas Donnelly >> >> Thomas Donnelly wrote: >> >>> Thomas Donnelly wrote: >>> >>>> I recently installed 7.0 and cvsupd to 7.0-beta2 right away. >>>> I have snd_hda set to load in via /boot/loader.conf >>>> Whenever ANY sound plays, be it KDE sounds, noatun, amarok, etc. it >>>> is VERY choppy, not start and stop, but skipping chunks. (IE song >>>> would be ABCDEFGHIJ, plays ABEGJ) >>>> Something misconfigured? I tried setting buffer to maximum and >>>> realtime priority via control center in kde. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> -=Tom Donnelly >>>> >>> Scratch amarok, seems to work fine in amarok.... System sounds and >>> Amarok are still hosed. >>> >> Wow, sorry for spamming the list... I meant to say System sounds and >> Noatun are still hosed. >> Also, noatun seems to be aware of the skipping as the time stays up >> with the song (skipping seconds at a time). >> > > Did you try using the ULE scheduler? > > I had extremely choppy sound, choppy mouse and an unusable system > (dual core) > if I compiled anything, but then I changed to the ULE scheduler and > everything > got better than it ever was in RELENG_6, particularly sound and DVD > playback, > both on dual and single cores. > It looks like FreeBSD is finally also a good real-time multimedia > platform. > > Miguel > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Fixed my pretty much unusable laptop which I recently upgraded to 7.0. Much better, thank you. I can't tell if the sound is better with snd_hda right now as per recommendation of the list, go back to 6 I was told. Oh well, based on how well this worked, much better, I may go back to 7 on my desktop. My fans kick in to high a lot less too now on my laptop :-D . -=Tom