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Subject: Re: Changing hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize in 4.10.
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In FreeBSD 5.3 you can change the buffersize by adding 
hint.pcm.0.buffersize="foo" to /boot/loader.conf, have you try'ed this 
with 4.x?

Sandy Rutherford wrote:

>Is it possible to change the sysctl variable hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize
>(DMA buffer size for the soundcard) in FreeBSD 4.10?  I know that in
>5.x this is changed in devices.hints.  I'm guessing that something in
>the kernel config file will do the job, but haven't been able to
>figure out what.
>
>I am trying to increase the buffersize to get rid of little skips in
>the playback, which I believe are caused by underruns.
>
>Thanks,
>Sandy
>  
>