sound issues in -CURRENT

[Nathan Seven]

Right- There is *definitely* some sound problems
here...

My symptoms have ranged from non-playback and softlock
of xmms, to a constant looping sample, to occasional
pops and slow/speedy playback.
I have my audio apps pointed at /dev/dspW0.0- and have
had circumstances where xmms could not playback
through the device, but after killing it, mplayer
could.
Then other circumstances where just no sound worked at
all- and the apps would just kinda hang-
I reverted to some unknown kernel from 2 weeks back or
so and it works reliably with the popping (which I can
live with)
Incidently, in this state, XMMS experiences these
problems but mplayer never does while playing movies.
And yes, I've disabled all of the kernel
debugging/spin checking/witness invariant stuff- it
seems to make no difference.


--- Ryan Freeman <ryan at slipgate.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:06:05 +1100
> matti k <matti at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 07:05:24 -0800
> > Ryan Freeman <ryan at slipgate.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > hello, i've searched the web for hours and hours
> and only found one
> > > hint of evidence that i'm not the only one with
> the following
> > > problem.
> > 
> > Try a search that's not FreeBSD specific.
> > 
> > > i found this post from several months ago that
> details the
> > > same problem i'm having:
> > 
> > My solutoin was more bad luck than anything else.
> I had a motherboard
> > fail and the replacement has onboard sound, which
> works fine. I'm half
> > tempted to try the sblive card, just to see what
> would happen with the
> > new motherboard and power supply.
> 
> well, the sound works fine in any other os for as
> long as i have my box
> on...so i don't see how i would need a new
> motherboard. perhaps the
> chipset on this motherboard is slightly incompatible
> with freebsd at
> this point and thats what is causing the problem but
> i used debian on
> here for about 2 years and never did i have a
> problem. it seems quite
> unlikely that suddenly the motherboard would break
> just in time for
> freebsd to be installed :P the motherboard is an ecs
> k7s5a. oh and
> between the time that the sound started screwing up
> and now i have put
> in a spare harddrive to put win2k on and during the
> few days that i used
> that the sound never had a problem, either.
> 
> - ryan
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