Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 19:44:38 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> Cc: Travis Mikalson <bofh@terranova.net>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newpcm glitches with AWE64 Message-ID: <20000404194438.A44076@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000403205013.conrads@home.com>; from conrads@home.com on Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 08:50:13PM -0500 References: <38E89E1D.3DA5C8CB@terranova.net> <XFMail.000403205013.conrads@home.com>
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In <XFMail.000403205013.conrads@home.com>, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > On 03-Apr-00 Travis Mikalson wrote: > > I have an SB AWE64 ISA PnP that I'm having some problems with since I > > upgraded to 4.0. > > > > Basically the sound is interrupting (very short, about 200ms) once or > > twice a minute whether I use mpg123, xmms, realplayer, etc. > > > > I was using voxware in 3.x-STABLE and not having any problems, even > > under heavy load. > > > > Unfortunately that's all I know. No weird messages from anything, > > everything seems happy enough. > > > > It's an SMP system, dual PPro 200 on a Tyan Titan Pro ATX. > > > > /dev/sndstat: > > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Apr 1 2000 08:39:50 > > Installed devices: > > pcm0: <SB DSP 4.16> at io 0x220 irq 5 drq 1:5 (1p/1r channels duplex) > > > > Anybody else having any similar problems? Any suggestions? > > I experienced the same sort of behavior when I upgraded to 4.0 a few weeks > ago. I've since reverted to 3.4-STABLE, and everything's working fine > again. > > The new pcm driver is really "Not Ready For Prime Time" just yet. Why > it's being forced on people (i.e., if you want to use 4.0) at this point is > beyond me. newbus Every driver had to be updated and that the only update that was contributed at the time was Cameron's newpcm. For the same reason you can't get the commercial OSS thing for FreeBSD-4.x/5.x. And tradition. Good sound drivers in FreeBSD for more than one soundcard? Sacrilege! Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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