From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 27 12: 7:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fire.starkreality.com (fire.starkreality.com [198.78.158.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B2C37B4C5 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:07:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from famine.starkreality.com (grail.remote.starkreality.com [198.78.158.216]) by fire.starkreality.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eARK7Gi90821; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:07:16 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.2.20001127140458.00ac8ab8@mail.starkreality.com> X-Sender: caesar@mail.starkreality.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:07:15 -0600 To: Drew Sanford , David Lebel From: "William S. Duncanson" Subject: Re: emu10k1 (soundblaster live!) still crackling. Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3A22BD08.5060309@planetwe.com> References: <20001127144744.A19054@lebel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I get pops all the time on my SBLive! card, under FreeBSD, Win2K, and ME. I'm starting to think that it's a hardware problem and not a software/driver problem. It seems to be related to the CD drives spining up (and dumping noise into the CD audio or CD digital port, maybe?) I haven't quite gotten around to calling Creative about it, though. At 13:59 11/27/2000 -0600, Drew Sanford wrote: >I haven't noticed this problem on either my SMP 4.2 machine or my UP 4.2 >machine, both with SBLive!'s. The only time I've noticed any flaws at all >was on the SMP machine when it was slammed and I was playing mp3's on >xmms, there were a few glitches, but we are talking about loads of up to >6.00 with swapping going on fairly heavily. > >David Lebel wrote: > >>Hello, >>I'm using 4.2-STABLE on a machine that has a SoundBlaster Live! >>soundcard. Around the time 4.0 was released, I had bunch of problems >>with the card giving bunch of static and crackling sound when sound >>was being played. This was apparently fixed around the 4.1 release, >>but since the latest MFC, I still notice occasional glitches in the >>sound (mostly pops). >>Am I along having this problem? >>Ciao, >> ...David > > >-- >Drew Sanford >Systems Administrator >Planetwe.com >Email: drew@planetwe.com > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message