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Date:      Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:23:04 -0500
From:      "Passki, Jonathan P" <jpasski@kpmg.com>
To:        "'William S. Duncanson'" <caesar@starkreality.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: emu10k1 (soundblaster live!) still crackling.
Message-ID:  <7799D023E51ED311BFB50008C75DD7B402881AD2@uschiexc05.kweb.us.kpmg.com>

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IIRC, the VIA chipset on some AMD boards had a problem interacting w/
SBLive! cards.  Look on Deja (http://www.deja.com) and VIA's Tech page
(http://www.viatech.com) for info and drivers.  If you're not using VIA
chipsets, then I don't know...

Jon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William S. Duncanson [mailto:caesar@starkreality.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 14:07
> To: Drew Sanford; David Lebel
> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: emu10k1 (soundblaster live!) still crackling.
> 
> 
> I get pops all the time on my SBLive! card, under FreeBSD, Win2K, and 
> ME.  I'm starting to think that it's a hardware problem and not a 
> software/driver problem.  It seems to be related to the CD 
> drives spining 
> up (and dumping noise into the CD audio or CD digital port, 
> maybe?)  I 
> haven't quite gotten around to calling Creative about it, though.
> 
> At 13:59 11/27/2000 -0600, Drew Sanford wrote:
> >I haven't noticed this problem on either my SMP 4.2 machine 
> or my UP 4.2 
> >machine, both with SBLive!'s. The only time I've noticed any 
> flaws at all 
> >was on the SMP machine when it was slammed and I was playing 
> mp3's on 
> >xmms, there were a few glitches, but we are talking about 
> loads of up to 
> >6.00 with swapping going on fairly heavily.
> >
> >David Lebel wrote:
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>I'm using 4.2-STABLE on a machine that has a SoundBlaster Live!
> >>soundcard.  Around the time 4.0 was released, I had bunch 
> of problems
> >>with the card giving bunch of static and crackling sound when sound
> >>was being played.  This was apparently fixed around the 4.1 release,
> >>but since the latest MFC, I still notice occasional glitches in the
> >>sound (mostly pops).
> >>Am I along having this problem?
> >>Ciao,
> >>   ...David
> >
> >
> >--
> >Drew Sanford
> >Systems Administrator
> >Planetwe.com
> >Email: drew@planetwe.com
> >
> >
> >
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