Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 12:14:06 -0500 From: "Edwin L. Culp" <eculp@encontacto.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: skype on current/5.x and maestro-2E sound Message-ID: <20050515121406.mawapm16gwkcs4gc@mail.encontacto.net> In-Reply-To: <20050515163535.GB59332@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> References: <4286AB34.6050101@elischer.org> <42871944.4030506@elischer.org> <20050515163535.GB59332@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
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Quoting Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>: > On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 02:41:24AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: >> cpghost@cordula.ws wrote: >> >On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 06:51:48PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: >> > >> >>Has anyone run skype successfully on these versions (5 or 6) of freeBSD? >> >>I can run it successfully on 4.x but on my 5.x machine the audio is >> >>completely >> >>broken up. like someone is chopping the audio stream. >> > >> > >> >I'm running Skype on 5.4 (via82c686). On an AMD Duron 1200 MHz, the >> >sound quality is all right; on an EPIA 5000 Eden 500 MHz (also via82c686), >> >the sound is totally chopped and it is impossible to follow. >> >> hmm so maybe its the fact that my machine is too slow.. it's also 500MHz >> my 1GHz 4.11 machine seems to run it fine. > > I have exactly the same problem (broken sound) > pcm0: <VIA VT8237> at io 0xe800 irq 12 kld snd_via8233 (5p/1r/0v channels > duplex default) I had this on all my AMD/Athlon boards with the via sound chipset. I found a reference to the problem, no solution, on one of the Skype BB's. I finally just disabled the onboard sound and added cheap available sound cards and they all have worked great. I've tried to get the via sound to work a couple of times after that, without success. ed ed > > and athlon xp 2.5GHz (on 6-c) > > so I dont think its speed related > > roman > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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