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 -- "Life may have no meaning -- or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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