From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 26 02:59:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB87216A4CE for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 02:59:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.mcneil.com (mcneil.com [24.199.45.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C60543D31 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 02:59:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sean@mcneil.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.mcneil.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mcneil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D64F1A8A; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:59:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mcneil.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.mcneil.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 82385-04; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:59:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [24.199.45.54] (mcneil.com [24.199.45.54]) by mail.mcneil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E86CF1A7D; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:59:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean McNeil To: Ryan Freeman In-Reply-To: <20040926025317.GA5812@slipgate.org> References: <20040926025317.GA5812@slipgate.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1096167596.82394.1.camel@server.mcneil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:59:56 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mcneil.com cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Sound performance problems in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 02:59:59 -0000 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 hello, sorry to drag up a slightly outdated topic, but i just installed 5.3beta5 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