From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Mar 15 8:37:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from pendragon.tacni.net (radius.tacni.net [64.247.218.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89B6F37B433 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 08:36:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 74999 invoked by alias); 15 Mar 2002 16:36:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO there) (216.201.213.69) by tacni.net with SMTP; 15 Mar 2002 16:36:46 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Erich Zigler To: conrads@cox.net Subject: Re: audio burps under X Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:36:55 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020315163656.89B6F37B433@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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: 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