From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 19 16:10:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 419A416A4CE for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:10:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freedombi.com (thedalesgroup.com [207.179.98.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A40AA43D1F for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:10:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from charles@idealso.com) Received: by freedombi.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E5428728F9; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:10:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from freedombi.com (localhost [192.168.10.108]) by freedombi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31A9E727F9; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:10:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from 207.179.91.96 (proxying for unknown) (SquirrelMail authenticated user charles); by freedombi.com with HTTP; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:10:06 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <1737.207.179.91.96.1106151006.squirrel@207.179.91.96> In-Reply-To: <200501190003.20614.olivier.certner@free.fr> References: <41ECC3A7.8040300@ISI.EDU> <200501190003.20614.olivier.certner@free.fr> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:10:06 -0500 (EST) From: "Charles Ulrich" To: "Olivier Certner" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on freedombi.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=7.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: poor sound quality in 5.3 stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:10:09 -0000 Olivier Certner said: > Hi, > > Do you mean that the sound seems unclear all the time? > > I've also had some problems with sound on my FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE, but a > different kind of. Sometimes I hear crakings while playing mp3 files with > XMMS, although my computer's load is very low. I use "snd_emu10k1" sound > module as you do with a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1. > > There is another driver that may be worth trying here: > http://chibis.persons.gfk.ru/audigy/. I'll give it a pick when I get more > time. > > Cheers, I too had problems with a SoundBlaster Live card on a workstation running 5.2.1. Sometimes the sound was nice and clean, but most of the time it was just horrible. Nothing I did had any noticable effect and the mailing lists unusually quiet on the issue, so I gave up. The emu10k1 cards are the best you can buy in their price range, and I didn't want to replace it. Since I needed the machine for sound work (recording and MIDI), I was forced to put Gentoo on it. YMMV. -- Charles Ulrich Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com