From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 25 20: 9:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wireless.net (wireless.net [207.137.156.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 589AF14C3E for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 20:09:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbutter@wireless.net) Received: from db.wireless.net (db.wireless.net [209.75.70.101]) by wireless.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA03071; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 20:22:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from dbm.wireless.net (dbm.wireless.net [192.168.0.2]) by db.wireless.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA26781; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 20:03:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbutter@wireless.net) From: Devin Butterfield Reply-To: dbutter@wireless.net To: Donn Miller , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pcm - stutters Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 20:05:48 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <388E1C6B.489B84D2@cvzoom.net> In-Reply-To: <388E1C6B.489B84D2@cvzoom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00012520102300.02605@dbm.wireless.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Donn Miller wrote: > Nick Hibma wrote: > > > The output of my ESS 1869 stutters whenever there is no new data fed to > > it. For example pressing Ctrl-Z, or heavy disk usage (normally making > > mpg123 jump). The stuttering is repetition of one short fragment of > > about a quarter of a second, indefinitely > > I can confirm this. Whenever there is any substantial disk activity, > the output of mpg123 starts to jump and quiver (and sometimes skip). > Why would disk activity do this? Must be an issue with bus latency, > because the ata and sound driver are trying to access the bus at the > same time. Also, it seems like certain graphics ops in XFree86 3.9.17 > make mpg123 jump and skip. Strangely, RealPlayer doesn't suffer from > these problems. I too notice these problems of mpg123 skipping during disk activity or X graphics ops but I have always had these problems, both with -STABLE and -CURRENT. I notice this with xmms too. So this is nothing new. -- Regards, Devin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message