sound issues in -CURRENT

[Ryan Freeman]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:22:51 -0800
Ryan Freeman <ryan at slipgate.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 07:05:24 -0800
> I wrote:
> 
> well, i recompiled my kernel this morning with the following option
> changes:
> 
> got rid of:
> options DISABLE_PSE
> options DISABLE_PG_G
> (i added then because of a problem i thought was existing with slow
> disk access but the problem was simply because of an old harddrive :/)
> 
> changed sched_4bsd to sched_ule
> 
> now then, the sound problems above seem to no-longer exist. at all.
> after i finished compiling and installing the new kernel i had to go
> to work. 9 hours later (well more like 11 actually after the walks to
> and from) i am listening to some mp3s through my headphones to detect
> the slightest tick or pop and i have yet to hear anything. if i had
> run the system for that long before it would be popping and clicking
> like popcorn right now. so i think i managed to get rid of this
> problem. i really hope this helps the other people with the same
> problem. i've only been listening to music for about 10 minutes but
> that should be more than enough time for the problem to arise. if it
> happens later i'll repost i guess but for now i hope its solved.
> thanks to everyone who replied :)
> 
> also i am not sure which of the options actually fixed the
> problem...i'm leaning towards the disable_pse and disable_pg_g options
> but i don't know? thanks,
> 

as of this morning the sound issue has resurfaced, just to a lesser
extent. i'm not very happy with this >:/.

- ryan