From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 13 19:40:38 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C07DD16A417 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:40:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uspoerlein@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A64D13C45D for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:40:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uspoerlein@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so590015nfb for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:40:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=mtE3dq7nmZNYEL5jLcwrn3I68wevx1bvjFv+iaOqE01t3pJu8YnSga0E8nh7/PJdWr++aGWNwZ6Imyq2udQBWt75+lzy0mgxX20+7K07yKUGT2E7+0IMTorirMW9Pkf2Gbvas2OePDEqjde4Jsi4WDCzi9ZHUbQaFLKn30gQmeQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=EOqM0gfHT8dwF37jCZpCja+Yvf9QNNLScpmd1t50zQXhoXPFSn2w5oepcnPHqj+vyZO0U/3SN/W/PsJS96LByiBHVykSWv2TouCgE/ql02+xK7PyVCVqNSVZpv5SX7WqpEQKGdHpAYUsTdGs82t544d9cSYhYrKv4UBTGio1z/Y= Received: by 10.86.68.16 with SMTP id q16mr4912154fga.1187034033187; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:40:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roadrunner.spoerlein.net ( [85.180.133.104]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j12sm1010862fkf.2007.08.13.12.40.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roadrunner.spoerlein.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by roadrunner.spoerlein.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l7DJeMDK003408; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:40:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from uspoerlein@gmail.com) Received: (from q@localhost) by roadrunner.spoerlein.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l7DJeMIi003407; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:40:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from uspoerlein@gmail.com) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:40:22 +0200 From: Ulrich Spoerlein To: Peter Johnson Message-ID: <20070813194022.GE1463@roadrunner.spoerlein.net> Mail-Followup-To: Peter Johnson , Ariff Abdullah , freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org References: <1233f1b60708052316r4943e5bbi29b1f194ab271019@mail.gmail.com> <20070806160331.4f0cce1d.ariff@FreeBSD.org> <1233f1b60708121140s324153c3sd6e39bf3b8c2a8a2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1233f1b60708121140s324153c3sd6e39bf3b8c2a8a2@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, Ariff Abdullah Subject: Re: HDA STAC9205 X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:40:38 -0000 On Sun, 12.08.2007 at 11:40:23 -0700, Peter Johnson wrote: > - More problematic, the sound sounds like it's from a tape recorder > with low battery: it speeds up and slows down, seemingly randomly, > with a period of seconds. Makes for bad-sounding music playback at > least. This is a laptop, so I suspected powerd, but even disabling > powerd didn't seem to help. Is there a buffering setting I should be > looking at changing? Perhaps something else is throttling? Try running some shell loops in the background, like this: while :;do :;done Cheers, Ulrich Spoerlein -- It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak, and remove all doubt.