From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 13 12:20: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1636937C557 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:19:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from owp.csus.edu (mail.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.247]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA67691; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:19:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Message-ID: <396E15BB.9A482B3C@owp.csus.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:17:15 -0700 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bad sound output, AudioPCI ES1371, 4.0-STABLE References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > On 12-Jul-00 Joseph Scott wrote: > > I'm starting to suspect that somewhere I've managed to do something > > to cause this, other than just tracking -STABLE. Unfortuntely I'm > > having a hard time coming up with something that I've done that would > > affect sound. > > I found a way to get horrible sound out of mine :). > > I added a couple of lines to my XF86Config (trying to get rid of the > lines that appear when sound plays), pci_burst_on and fifo_moderate were the > settings I tried. It seems the PCI sound can be sensitive to the (probably bad) > behaviour of other things on the bus, pulling 15 MB/s out of the UDMA/66 > doesn't bother it at all but the built in AGP video can on my box it seems. I don't think the problem I'm having has anything to do with video/X, I'm not running X on this machine at all. The most I'm doing is logging in via ssh and running xmms remotely to play mp3s. At this point though, I wouldn't rule out anything, and I'll do what ever it takes to make this thing work again. I really want my sound back! :-) -- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message