Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 03:05:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Just Another Victim of the Danish Usenet Afrydder-Mafia <barry@marley.mendelu.cz> To: multimedia@freebsd.org Cc: wkb@chello.nl Subject: Re: Soundblaster PCI 128 support in 4-stable Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000625024119.686B-100000@marley.vszbr.cz> In-Reply-To: <200006231748.TAA16177_214.norrgarden.se@ns.sol.net>
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On 23 Jun 19100 cj@vallcom.net wrote: > >> what is the support status for a Soundblaster PCI 128 card? Need to buy a > > > > I've got a soundblaster PCI 128 and it works beautifully on 3.5-S. Mine's an > > older one with the es1370 chipset. The newer ones have the es1371 (or 1373?) > > chipset in them but I do believe that 4.0-S has got support for these > > Yes I can confirm that. Im using a SB PCI 128 with the newer es1371 Here's a problem that I've noticed a few times, and it just happened again a few minutes ago, so I'm not imagining things. I've had no problems with the es1371-based PCI 128 for playback. I'm using it for recording, to do live audio streaming, for which my experiences with FreeBSD-4.*/5.* as of a couple months ago have not been so good (all sound cards give me some amount of a staticky noise), while 3.4 has worked fine and is currently my choice for production audio OS. The problem that I'm seeing is that after some number of hours (today just a bit under two days), I completely stop getting any PCM sound data out of the card. I've never seen this problem with the PCI 16 or several other SB 16-like cards, only the 128 (with 1371), and it happens with both the 128s I've used. At first I thought it was hardware, but I've seen the same thing in several machines ranging from cheap PCs to HP NetSwervers, regardless of card combination or slot. And I see it not only today with 3.4 but also previously with an older 5.0. I just haven't run it long enough under NetBSD to verify there are no problems there. I have no idea what could be the cause of this. I'm using a slightly hacked `bplay/brec' to do my sound grabbing on all machines with all cards, and it's only the 128 where I see this. All the other cards I use record for months without any problems. After I stop getting any data from the card, there's nothing I have been able to do save rebooting the machine to get it to record again. I think it still plays -- at least, mpg123 shows ever-increasing frame numbers, but I'm not at the machine now to hear the audio output. I'll need to try this a few more times to see if this problem always occurs after the same length of time (about 46 hours this time) with a particular sample rate (44,1kHz 16-bit stereo), as well as to run it for a longer time with NetBSD to see if I have a similar problem there. One of these things that just has me puzzled... barry bouwsma, tele danmark internet department of pointless play To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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