From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 5 9:36:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55BE737B425 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 09:36:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 11084 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Feb 2002 17:36:20 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Feb 2002 17:36:20 -0000 Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:36:20 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VIA VT82C686A Sound problem In-Reply-To: <20020205153643.GC2251@raggedclown.net> Message-ID: <20020205123539.F11080-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 This soundcard is the builtin one right? I would suggest making sure that nothing is sharing an IRQ with it. Ken On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message