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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:56:11 +0100
From:      Eirik Oeverby <ltning-freebsd-current@anduin.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sound issues in -CURRENT
Message-ID:  <405FED9B.3050106@anduin.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040317170020.7d50d0f4.ryan@slipgate.org>
References:  <20040309070524.40ad96f5.ryan@slipgate.org> <20040312232251.48c0c57d.ryan@slipgate.org> <20040317170020.7d50d0f4.ryan@slipgate.org>

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Hi,

The problem persists, has always persisted, and any message I've posted
indicating anything else is to be ignored ;)

Heavy disk I/O seems to be a trigger for the problem. I always hear the
screwups, but i.e. when building mozilla or openoffice (during the
extract phase with heavy I/O), sound almost slows down to a complete
stop, stutters and hicks and cracks all the time - to a point where the
music is almost impossible to even identify anymore.

I've tried forcing my soundcard (C-Media and SB Live!) to use a 'free'
IRQ, i.e. no IRQ sharing - but this doesn't help.
One good way to reproduce atleast the audible result of the problem is
to load a kernel module (even something like samba support) while sound
is playing. Try and thou shall hear.

Suffice to say, if FreeBSD 5.x goes -STABLE with this issue still
present it will be a major 'turn off' for many, notwithstanding the
argument that FreeBSD is not for desktop use anyway :P


Best regards,
/Eirik

Ryan Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:22:51 -0800
> Ryan Freeman <ryan@slipgate.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 07:05:24 -0800
>>I wrote:
>>
>>well, i recompiled my kernel this morning with the following option
>>changes:
>>
>>got rid of:
>>options DISABLE_PSE
>>options DISABLE_PG_G
>>(i added then because of a problem i thought was existing with slow
>>disk access but the problem was simply because of an old harddrive :/)
>>
>>changed sched_4bsd to sched_ule
>>
>>now then, the sound problems above seem to no-longer exist. at all.
>>after i finished compiling and installing the new kernel i had to go
>>to work. 9 hours later (well more like 11 actually after the walks to
>>and from) i am listening to some mp3s through my headphones to detect
>>the slightest tick or pop and i have yet to hear anything. if i had
>>run the system for that long before it would be popping and clicking
>>like popcorn right now. so i think i managed to get rid of this
>>problem. i really hope this helps the other people with the same
>>problem. i've only been listening to music for about 10 minutes but
>>that should be more than enough time for the problem to arise. if it
>>happens later i'll repost i guess but for now i hope its solved.
>>thanks to everyone who replied :)
>>
>>also i am not sure which of the options actually fixed the
>>problem...i'm leaning towards the disable_pse and disable_pg_g options
>>but i don't know? thanks,
>>
> 
> 
> as of this morning the sound issue has resurfaced, just to a lesser
> extent. i'm not very happy with this >:/.
> 
> - ryan
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