Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:37:12 +0400 From: "Yuriy Tsibizov" <Yuriy.Tsibizov@gfk.ru> To: "Travis Poppe" <tlpbsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Mild sound distortion with FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 Message-ID: <C192C8912E798F4399668791C8965190017DC6F3@mx.hhp.local>
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> > I've recently noticed a mild sound distortion in XMMS and other > > applications that output sound. I'm not sure when I started noticing > > this, but I don't believe it has always been present in the=20 > 5.x branch > > (and if it has, I haven't noticed it up until a month or two ago). >=20 > I've found a solution to my sound problem. >=20 > I recently switched to this third party driver for SB=20 > Live!/Audigy cards:=20 >=20 > http://chibis.persons.gfk.ru/audigy/ >=20 > As far as I can tell, the sound distortion problem is _completely_ > gone. If any of you have this same problem and own an SB Live/Audigy, > try the driver I mentioned above. emu10kx has large default hardware buffer (4096*8), emu10k1 uses only = 4096 (one emu10k page).=20 You can make small change to emu10k1.c (#define EMU_DEFAULT_BUFSZ = EMUPAGESIZE*8) or set hint.pcm.0.buffersize=3D"32768" (assuming your card is pcm0)=20 in your kernel hints file and you should see better playback of long = files.=20 This change will also bring you problem with very small files=20 (less than EMU_DEFAULT_BUFSZ) - you will not hear them =20 or only hear a small portion, like first (?) 4096 bytes. Yuriy
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