Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:55:18 -0600 From: Thomas Donnelly <tad1214@aol.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: snd_hda extremely choppy on 7-beta2 Message-ID: <473B60B6.9040901@aol.com>
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Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos wrote: >> From: Thomas Donnelly <Tad1214@aol.com> >> >> 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
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