Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:59:56 -0700 From: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> To: Ryan Freeman <ryan@slipgate.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sound performance problems in FreeBSD Message-ID: <1096167596.82394.1.camel@server.mcneil.com> In-Reply-To: <20040926025317.GA5812@slipgate.org> References: <20040926025317.GA5812@slipgate.org>
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On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 19:53, Ryan Freeman wrote: > hello, sorry to drag up a slightly outdated topic, but i just installed 5.3beta5 > and i'm having the same issue. the last time i used freebsd was back in march at > version 5.2 and 5.2.1. the issue existed then too, hence trying out 5.3beta5 now > +to > see if it was gone. while it isn't gone, i'm glad to see people are finally > +noticing > the problem as more than just "oh your hardware must be faulty". i ran the > +following: > > > An easy way to reproduce these > > skips is to run `while true; do sysctl vm.vmtotal; done`, while > > playing an mp3. > > and i get the nice "person being removed from the matrix" effect. haven't yet > +tried > the patch, but i want to get on that asap. can anyone else verify that the patch > works? and furthermore, is it going to be worked into the freebsd source > +post-haste? ;) thanks, > > - ryan > > hardware includes: athlon xp 1900+, 768mb DDR, sblive 5.1. What patch are you referring to? I've had very poor playback on my amd64 machine with esd for a long time. If I use xmms or something like it and have it go directly to the OSS driver instead of through esd then I have no issues at all. Cheers, Sean
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