atom feed7 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-multimediaUT2004 sound problem
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Karel J. BosschaartMar 31, 2004 9:36 am 
Mathew KannerMar 31, 2004 10:03 am 
Karel J. BosschaartMar 31, 2004 5:14 pm 
Mathew KannerApr 2, 2004 3:19 am 
Karel J. BosschaartApr 2, 2004 3:32 am 
Mathew KannerApr 2, 2004 3:34 am 
Karel J. BosschaartApr 8, 2004 6:02 am 
Subject:UT2004 sound problem
From:Karel J. Bosschaart (kar@kayjay.xs4all.nl)
Date:Apr 8, 2004 6:02:18 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-multimedia

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 10:05:42AM -0500, Mathew Kanner wrote:

On Apr 01, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote:

Thanks for the quick reply!

My sound devices:

pcm0: <CMedia CMI8738> at io 0xa400 irq 10 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex default) pcm1: <Avance Logic ALS4000> at io 0xa000 irq 9 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex)

Both sound cards have the same problem.

would suggest that you play with enabling, disabling vchans and see if

I tried

sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4 sysctl hw.snd.maxautovchans=4

but it doesn't help. I'm getting a bunch of extra

And setting them to 0?

Isn't that the default value? Anyway, I tried it and the sound is still not good. (Only one 'native_blitbuffer: select error occured')

It's a little weird. The default is

Sound card with one output channel -> maxautovchans=1 Sound card with multiple output channels -> maxautovchans=0

Can you also experiment with soft mixing, (I'm forgotting what we actually call it), y'know auto-rate/format conversion.

I guess you mean hw.snd.report_soft_formats ? I tried 0 and 1, for both soundcards but the problems persists.

Anyway I decided to give up for now, the trick with reboot/demo works for me. (playing in -current is not an option; sound is OK but framerate too low probably because I can't use the nvidia AGP driver there).

Thanks for the help, at least I learned some new things about pcm! Karel.