From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 5 7:36:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B187C37B429 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 07:36:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Y7eF-0005en-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 05 Feb 2002 15:36:44 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 12DDC13040 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:36:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1001) id 6C11322592; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:36:43 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:36:43 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VIA VT82C686A Sound problem Message-ID: <20020205153643.GC2251@raggedclown.net> References: <20020205102614.A45495@darkstar.bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020205102614.A45495@darkstar.bellsouth.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:26:14AM -0500, Austin hall wrote: > Ever since stable of around 4.4, I have been having strange sound > problems. Whenever there is any CPU or disk activity my sound breaks > up and beeps ands issues a series of other unpleasant sounds. It > happens with both esound and the native OS driver support stuff, like > with mpg123. I have tried increasing buffer size in XMMS and mpg123, > but it has no noticeable effect. This is incredibly annoying? BTW, > it does not do this in windows, so I doubt it's a hardware issue. > > Here is cat /dev/sndstat: > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Jan 28 2002 13:37:37 Installed devices: pcm0: > at io 0xdc00 irq 10 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex) > Mmm, where is the sound card ? They are best placed in a slot as far away as possible from the CPU or disk drives. Just a thought...although I suppose that would affect windows as well, but who knows. IRQ's ? -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message