From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 12 0: 5:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.lewman.org (lowrider.lewman.org [209.67.240.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A8737BC20 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 00:05:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sean@rentul.net) Received: by mail.lewman.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5A4313D31; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 03:07:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lewman.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 553AE5BC4; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 03:07:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 03:07:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Sean Lutner X-Sender: sean@lowrider.lewman.org To: Joseph Scott Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bad sound output, AudioPCI ES1371, 4.0-STABLE In-Reply-To: <396B3E6F.BD94C310@owp.csus.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have the exact same card you do. (9) sean@pulse: ~ $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Jun 29 2000 01:10:19 Installed devices: pcm0: at io 0x1080 irq 5 (1p/1r channels duplex) (10) sean@pulse: ~ $ dmesg | grep pcm pcm0: port 0x1080-0x10bf irq 5 at device 15.0 on pci0 (11) sean@pulse: ~ $ I also have device pcm in my kernel, and I've not have one glitch in my sound performance. I switch from X to console, I switch back, I switch desktops, I run lots of memory intensive programs (mozilla, Star Office 5.2, netscape, etc), and I've seen no performance hits. Any other comparisons you'd like to make, I'd be willing to do, compare configs, specs on machines etc... On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Joseph Scott wrote: > > I have an AudioPCI ES1371 sound card. From dmesg & sndstat : > > --- > > dmesg|grep pcm > pcm0: port 0xb400-0xb43f irq 5 at device 13.0 on > pci0 > --- > > cat /dev/sndstat > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Jul 10 2000 17:31:19 > Installed devices: > pcm0: at io 0xb400 irq 5 (1p/1r channels duplex) > --- > > The only thing in my kernel config for this is : > > --- > device pcm > --- > > I've had this machine for awhile, with sound working fine under 3.4. > I believe it was also working under 4.0-RELEASE also. It's now > running 4-STABLE (from 10 Jul 2000) and putting out really crummy > sound ouput. > > You can make out the song that it's playing, but not easily because > it's generating so much static and garbage around it. > > I've seen several posts about bad sound output, but I haven't seen > any solutions yet. If there are some patches that are floating around > looking for someone to test them I'd be happy to. > > -- > Joseph Scott > joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu > Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message