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Date:      Tue, 5 Feb 2002 15:51:47 -0500
From:      Austin hall <ash@vectorstar.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VIA VT82C686A Sound problem
Message-ID:  <20020205155147.A56472@darkstar.bellsouth.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020205123539.F11080-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>; from culverk@yumyumyum.org on Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:36:20PM -0500
References:  <20020205153643.GC2251@raggedclown.net> <20020205123539.F11080-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>

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On Tuesday 05 February Kenneth Culver wrote:
> This soundcard is the builtin one right? I would suggest making sure that
> nothing is sharing an IRQ with it.

Yes; it's the builtin one, the only one I have. How do I check to make
sure nothing is sharing its IRQ?

> Ken
> 
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:26:14AM -0500, Austin hall wrote:
> > > Ever since stable of around 4.4, I have been having strange sound
> > > problems. Whenever there is any CPU or disk activity my sound breaks
> > > up and beeps ands issues a series of other unpleasant sounds. It
> > > happens with both esound and the native OS driver support stuff, like
> > > with mpg123. I have tried increasing buffer size in XMMS and mpg123,
> > > but it has no noticeable effect. This is incredibly annoying? BTW,
> > > it does not do this in windows, so I doubt it's a hardware issue.
> > >
> > > Here is cat /dev/sndstat:
> > > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Jan 28 2002 13:37:37 Installed devices: pcm0:
> > > <VIA VT82C686A> at io 0xdc00 irq 10 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex)
> > >
> > Mmm, where is the sound card ?
> >
> > They are best placed in a slot as far away as possible from the CPU or
> > disk drives.
> >
> > Just a thought...although I suppose that would affect windows as well,
> > but who knows.
> >
> > IRQ's ?
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> > Cliff

Austin
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