From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Mar 15 17:39:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60DFD37B41C for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:39:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2G1de673945; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:39:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:39:40 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke To: Matthew Luckie Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inspiron 8000 & Maestro 3 In-Reply-To: <3C929065.7020106@ihug.co.nz> Message-ID: <20020315203747.G73932-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Matthew Luckie wrote: > Hi > > I've had an Inspiron 8000 for nearly a year now. It has a Maestro3 > sound card in it. > While I'm aware that I can load it in /boot/loader.conf, i currently > load the module out of /usr/local/etc/rc.d with a kldload > > pcm0: port 0xec00-0xecff mem > 0xf8ffe000-0xf8ffffff irq 5 at device 3.0 on pci2 > > I noticed about 6 months ago that playback did not seem smooth, and that > when playing mp3s it makes lots of pop noices like static. I didnt put > as much effort as I should have into tracking it down - i had upgraded > the bios and performed a cvsup around that time. > > Well I have Bios A19 on my Inspiron 8000 and a FreeBSD 4.5-S from a few > days ago and it is still sounding bad. Is anyone else having this > behaviour from their maestro3 sound card? Sound works great for me on my Maestro3 in my 8100. However, I load the module from loader.conf. I had some problems loading it after booting. The only change to the driver was a return code change a few weeks ago. It hasn't been MFC'd yet, but I don't think it would contribute to popping sounds. Joe > > -- > Matthew Luckie > kluckie@ihug.co.nz > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message