From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 26 03:05:33 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 5F82D16A548 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 03:05:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from slipgate.org (S0106000acd019ad0.du.shawcable.net [24.109.1.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2981F43D45 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 03:05:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryan@slipgate.org) Received: from ryan.lan (gate.lan [192.168.1.1]) by slipgate.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i8Q35Brh005864 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:05:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ryan.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ryan.lan (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i8Q35qZm006043 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:05:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan@slipgate.org) Received: (from ryan@localhost) by ryan.lan (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i8Q35qAT006042 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:05:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan@slipgate.org) Resent-Message-Id: <200409260305.i8Q35qAT006042@ryan.lan> X-Authentication-Warning: ryan.lan: ryan set sender to ryan@slipgate.org using -f Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:02:57 -0700 From: Ryan Freeman To: Sean McNeil Message-ID: <20040926030257.GA5977@slipgate.org> References: <20040926025317.GA5812@slipgate.org> <1096167596.82394.1.camel@server.mcneil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1096167596.82394.1.camel@server.mcneil.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Resent-From: ryan@slipgate.org Resent-Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:05:52 -0700 Resent-To: 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 03:05:34 -0000 On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 07:59:56PM -0700, Sean McNeil wrote: > 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 hello, sorry to drag up a slightly outdated topic, but i just installed 5.3beta5 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. sorry for the massive spam of the same message, i was having sendmail issues :/ i thought i had cleared out the queue while i was playing around but nope, it backed right up. ANYWAY, the patch i'm referring to is the one talked about here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-September/036528.html and here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-September/037045.html thanks, - ryan