Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:36:55 -0600 From: Erich Zigler <erichz@superhero.org> To: conrads@cox.net Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: audio burps under X Message-ID: <20020315163656.89B6F37B433@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020315072839.conrads@cox.net> References: <XFMail.20020315072839.conrads@cox.net>
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On Friday 15 March 2002 07:28 am, you wrote: > Wondering if anyone else is having the same problems I've been having for > a while now. > Running the latest X port under a very recent -stable, with the S3 Savage > driver (S3 Savage 4). > Under X, if I'm playing any sort of audio file, and try scrolling some > text in a window, or even have an app running in an xterm that's > producing a lot of output, I get a lot of very annoying interference with > the audio. If I drag a scroll button up and down, the audio slows down > and becomes horribly mutilated. > I'm not sure what's causing this, if it's X, or the pcm driver. I never > used to experience this. Audio used to play very smoothly, even under > moderate to heavy loads. Now it seems like certain X events are > generating an interrupt that's causing the pcm driver to temporarily be > blocked. > $ uname -a > FreeBSD dolphin.idleplay.net 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Thu Mar 14 > 16:11:05 CST 2002 > root@dolphin.idleplay.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 > $ cat /dev/sndstat > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Mar 14 2002 16:10:36 > Installed devices: > pcm0: <AudioPCI ES1373-8> at io 0x1000 irq 11 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex) > ^^^^^^^^ > Odd, I just noticed this. Used to say "ES1371", if I remember correctly. > I'll gladly provide any further info if anyone is interested. I had the exact same problem. I was using a Creative Soundblaster PCI 128, a nvidia RIVA TNT2 and a S3 ViRGE DX/GX. I recently replaced those two video cards with a ATI Radeon VE dualhead, and the problem went away. So I assumed it was a memory conflict of some kind. -- Ultimate Question Research Team To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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