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Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 14:37:24 -0400
To: Pieter Westland <pieter@nl.euro.net>,
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From: Rick <ric@home.com>
Subject: Re: Xmame, pcm0 and sound
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Have you tried iNES, i am also using pcm0 and sound is really crappy using
ines.
-Rick
At 04:24 PM 5/10/99 +0200, Pieter Westland wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm a happy user of xmame :)
>The only problem with it is the sound. The sounds are cool, but much to slow
>(high latency).
>I contacted the maintainer of the xmame-project (Hans de Goede), and he told
>me that more FreeBSD-users have problems with xmame and sound. In the
mailing-
>list-archive I could not find anything about this problem.
>
>I use Luigi's sound driver (pcm0), with this kernel-config:
>
>device pcm0 at isa? port ? tty irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15
>
>Some examples when starting xmame:
>
>-fragsize 4:
>
>Setting fragsize to 8, numfrags to 5                
>Fragsize = 40, Numfrags = 1632                                        
>
>-fragsize 128:
>
>Setting fragsize to 256, numfrags to 5
>Fragsize = 256, Numfrags = 255          
>
>It seems that when xmame.x11 asks a fragsize of 128, FreeBSD doubles it. And,
>worse, when xmame asks a numfrags of 5, it doesn't use that number of
numfrags
>either.
>Hans told me that this is the reason of the poor sound in xmame.
>
>Xmame-version: X-Mame-0.35b12.1
>System: AMDK6-233, 64 Mb, FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE (23-4-1999).
>
>Does anyone have a clue?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Pieter
>--
>Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology:
>        There's always one more bug.
>
>
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