From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Feb 12 17:12:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from carbon.flatlan.net (carbon.flatlan.net [209.31.238.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 217FC37B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:12:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by carbon.flatlan.net (Postfix, from userid 101) id C64213C101; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:12:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:12:37 -0800 From: Nicholas Esborn To: Conrad Sabatier Cc: Nicholas Esborn , freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pcm (ES1370) crackling on Athlon, 4.2-STABLE Message-ID: <20010212171237.A14526@flatlan.net> References: <20010212123259.A12360@flatlan.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0F1p//8PRICkK4MW" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from cjsabatier@home.com on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:03:05PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The audio was worse when I played through esound... I saw posts about this earlier. But audio players not linked against esound do this as well. -nick On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:03:05PM -0600, Conrad Sabatier wrote: >=20 > On 12-Feb-01 Nicholas Esborn wrote: > > Hey folks. > >=20 > > I recently upgraded from a Celeron 300A/440BX to an Athlon 800/VIA 82C6= 86A. > > My ES1370 sound card worked fine with the Celeron, but does not work we= ll at > > all in the Athlon system; it crackles a bit under light system load, and > > makes horrible slowed-down grinding noises if the CPU is very busy. > >=20 > > The VIA board comes with an on-board AC97 code, which I tried, but turn= ed off > > because it didn't seem to support any useful sample frequencies and was= very > > noisy. > >=20 > > I've seen a few posts from people having similar problems. I don't thi= nk I > > have any interrupt conflicts, at least not between simultaneously active > > devices. I've juggled the box's cards and BIOS settings quite a bit, b= ut > > haven't been able to get better performance. Is this a problem with th= e VIA > > chipset support? >=20 > Which audio programs exactly are you using? I was having problems recent= ly > with MP3 playback, and thought at first that it was a problem with the pcm > driver. As it turned out, there's a problem with esound (I was using an = mpg123 > built with esound support). >=20 > Try using a simple wave file player, like "play" or "waveplay", and see i= f you > still notice the same problems. If not, then your MP3 player is probably > linked with esound, which is the real culprit. >=20 > --=20 > Conrad Sabatier > cjsabatier@home.com >=20 --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6iIoEV3GAM4uE438RAtuYAJ9XuuqbK66WwcW9r8ZjzF9Vjpc3QwCdEoJU RCcvxUXYstuo9xpu6fJpy2U= =fQbm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message