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Date:      13 Sep 2002 11:27:04 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Matthew Luckie <kluckie@ihug.co.nz>
Cc:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Inspiron 8000 & Maestro 3
Message-ID:  <1031930827.657.6.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <3D81A0F3.6090203@ihug.co.nz>
References:   <20020315203747.G73932-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>	<3C92A392.10209@ihug.co. nz> <20020315.211417.16265646.imp@village.org>  <3D81A0F3.6090203@ihug.co.nz>

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On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 04:25, Matthew Luckie wrote:
> This is a reply to a really old message from back in March.  I reported 
> that the sound was sounding slow on my dell inspiron 8000 with a maestro 
> 3 sound card.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=191566+193956+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-mobile/20020317.freebsd-mobile
> 
> I just figured out what was going on.
> 
> I run wmbattery in the windowmaker dock.  Each second it polls for the 
> status of the batteries, which coincides with the sound slowing down 
> briefly.  If I use /usr/sbin/apm I get the same slow-down as wmbattery.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is specific to my laptop (Inspiron 8000 with a 
> maestro3 soundcard running FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE from a few hours ago) 
> but I'd thought I'd report it anyway.

You're right.  I'f I kick off xmms, then run apm a few times, the sounds
slows down and distorts.  It actually adds a nice effect when listening
to Disturbed ;-).  I usually never run battstat programs since this
laptop is almost always plugged in.  Even rtprio doesn't help anything.

Joe

> 
> > : > Sound works great for me on my Maestro3 in my 8100.  However, I load the
> > : > module from loader.conf.  I had some problems loading it after booting.
> > : > The only change to the driver was a return code change a few weeks ago.
> > : > It hasn't been MFC'd yet, but I don't think it would contribute to popping
> > : > sounds.
> > : 
> > : well i've loaded it from loader.conf and it hasnt made any difference. 
> > : it almost sounds like the music is running slow.
> > pcm0: <ESS Technology Maestro3> port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 0xf6ffe000-0xf6ffffff irq 5 at device 3.0 on pci2
> > ...
> > 
> > xmms works for me when I do this.  I'm using the maestro3 code that's
> > in the tree without any special hacks.
> > 
> > I do sometimes need to do rtprio on xmms when the interrupt latency
> > sucks, but i haven't had to do that since xmas or so.
> > 
> > Warner
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Luckie
> kluckie@ihug.co.nz
> 
> 
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