Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:44:42 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr> Cc: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> Subject: Re: [Fwd: sound in CURRENT] Message-ID: <20040823134442.72bb24ee@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: <4129D856.20600@ebs.gr> References: <1093108393.4202.8.camel@funshine.carebears.net> <20040821133701.6ecf9f04@dolphin.local.net> <20040822040453.GA11878@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <1093148651.47618.3.camel@server.mcneil.com> <20040823092644.GA46822@vala.homelan.net> <4129D856.20600@ebs.gr>
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:43:18 +0300 Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr> wrote: > Russell Jackson wrote: > > > To chime in on the sound issue, I get seemingly random distortions > > or screeches during playback. A sure fire way to cause it on demand > > is to do a sysctl -a. I've also found that taking the battery out > > and running on A/C only reduces the frequency of the distortions. I get horrible screeching with timidity++, myself. MP3s and other audio sounds fine, though. > > You may have gathered that this is a laptop based on the fact that > > it has a battery. Sound is provided by an Acer Labs M5451 using > > t4dwave driver. > > > > On the other side of the spectrum, sound plays back perfectly on my > > workstation. > > Just as a datapoint, ever since I added the following line to > /boot/device.hints my sound experience has been greatly improved: > > hint.pcm.0.buffersize="16384" Interesting. The nVidia nForce3 already uses a default buffer size of 16384; I just rebooted, setting it to 32768. Will see if this has any benefit or not. <crossing fingers> I've tried fiddling with hw.snd.targetirqrate, but that did no good. Still broke after a while. <sigh> -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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