From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 1 8:36:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from comnet.ca (comnet.ca [207.107.47.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC36637B80C for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 08:36:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sarr0006@algonquincollege.com) Received: from algonquincollege.com (d-207.comnet.ca [207.107.44.207]) by comnet.ca (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e4147Ik17622 for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 00:07:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <390D0499.7246CFC3@algonquincollege.com> Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 00:14:17 -0400 From: David Sarrazin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sound skipping References: <20000430141201.A79175@seanrees.com> <20000430234359.B24846@pir.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Radcliffe wrote: > "Christopher L. Goetzke" probably said: > > I tend to get skips while playing audio with mp3blaster; as a quick-n-dirty > > workaround, I fire it up at nice -10 (actually, I usually renice it). That > > seems to work for me. YMMV. > > Something got a lot worse, particularly with xmms, not long before 4.0 > was released. My 3.4-STABLE box at work running xms with the newest > libraries I could find uses 100% cpu to itself, all the time and skips > with no provovation. > > My laptop when it was running 3.4-PAO and slightly older xmms libraries > was fine (same as the desktop box used to be). > > My now 4.0-S laptop is better than the 3.4-S desktop but xmms still > takes more CPU and skips a lot more than exactly the same hardware > used to, and the equalizer breaks audio to the point of just > occasional crackling sounds, now. > Just to provide an additional data point, while running XMMS 0.9.5 on 3.4-STABLE, with the sb driver, I found that it used up 100% (according to top) of my CPU, which seems to be the norm. After upgrading to FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE and XMMS 1.0.1, CPU usage has dropped to 28%, with the PCM driver. I have no trouble with the EQ, and the only time it skips is when I start using Netscape 4.5. I use the AWE64, so no difference there. In case it matters, my mp3s are kept on a FAT32 partition. dmesg: CPU: Pentium/P55C (199.74-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x543 Stepping = 3 Features=0x8001bf real memory = 67108864 (65536K bytes) avail memory = 62205952 (60748K bytes) sbc0: at port 0x220-0x22f,0x330-0x331,0x388-0x38b irq 5 drq 1,5 on isa0 sbc0: setting card to irq 5, drq 1, 5 pcm0: on sbc0 unknown0: at port 0x200-0x207 on isa0 unknown1: at port 0x620-0x623 on isa0 I know this doesn't solve your problem, but it's a situation where something (XMMS 1.0.1 or FreeBSD 4.0 w/PCM) has improved the situation. David Sarrazin > > P. > > -- > pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message