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Subject: Re: snd_hda extremely choppy on 7-beta2
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Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:56:59 -0600
> Thomas Donnelly <Tad1214@aol.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I recently installed 7.0 and cvsupd to 7.0-beta2 right away.
>> I have snd_hda set to load in via /boot/loader.conf
>> Whenever ANY sound plays, be it KDE sounds, noatun, amarok, etc. it is 
>> VERY choppy, not start and stop, but skipping chunks. (IE song would be 
>> ABCDEFGHIJ, plays ABEGJ)
>> Something misconfigured? I tried setting buffer to maximum and realtime 
>> priority via control center in kde.
>>     

My information:
 
Barracuda# cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <Intel 82801G High Definition Audio Controllerat memory 
0xfebfc000 irq 19 kld snd_hda [20071020_0048] [MPSAFE] (1p:3v/1r:1v 
channels duplex default)


Barracuda# sysctl hw.snd
hw.snd.latency_profile: 1
hw.snd.latency: 5
hw.snd.report_soft_formats: 1
hw.snd.compat_linux_mmap: 0
hw.snd.feeder_buffersize: 16384
hw.snd.feeder_rate_round: 25
hw.snd.feeder_rate_max: 2016000
hw.snd.feeder_rate_min: 1
hw.snd.verbose: 1
hw.snd.maxautovchans: 16
hw.snd.default_unit: 0
hw.snd.version: 2007061600/i386
hw.snd.default_auto: 0

This is not affected by CPU load, if it is nearly idle, or full load, 
still skips.

Thanks!
-=Tom