Skype on FreeBSD - distorted sound - Please help to solve
Robert Nicholson
nicholson.robert at gmail.com
Mon Mar 27 15:31:22 UTC 2006
Hi Ariff,
Thank you for your mail. I added what you said like this:
hint.pcm.0.buffersize=65536
in /boot/device.hints
Now my Skype works much better - sound is far more clearer. However
sound sometimes is jumpy and there is a kind of background
disturbance. I am attaching all the informations that you asked for.
Thank you for your help so far.
Regards,
Michael.
$ uname -a
FreeBSD localhost.local 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Mon
Mar 27 19:
43:50 CST 2006
michael at localhost.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTKERNEL i386
$
pciconf -lv | grep -B 4 audio
pcm0 at pci0:7:0: class=0x040100 card=0x80651102 chip=0x00021102 rev=0x0a hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Creative Labs'
device = 'EMU10000 Sound Blaster Live! (Also Live! 5.1) - OEM
from DELL - CT4780'
class = multimedia
subclass = audio
$
/usr/sbin/mixer
Mixer vol is currently set to 94:94
Mixer pcm is currently set to 75:75
Mixer speaker is currently set to 0:0
Mixer line is currently set to 0:0
Mixer mic is currently set to 50:50
Mixer cd is currently set to 75:75
Mixer rec is currently set to 58:58
Mixer igain is currently set to 5:5
Mixer ogain is currently set to 50:50
Mixer line1 is currently set to 0:0
Mixer phin is currently set to 0:0
Mixer phout is currently set to 0:0
Mixer video is currently set to 0:0
Recording source: mic
$
On 3/27/06, Ariff Abdullah <ariff at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:41:36 +0800
> Michael and Mary David <michael-and-mary at cutlets.info> wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > This is Michael David and am new to this list. I have successfully
> > installed FreeBSD 6, 6.1 Beta 4 and PC BSD on my PC at different
> > times. However with all these, there is one application that is
> > really troublesome - SKYPE.
> >
> > I installed Skype from ports - Skype starts up successfully, I can
> > make calls, both myself and the other party can talk and hear each
> > other - however sound is terribly distorted.
> >
> > My PC specs are:
> >
> > 2.0 GHz Celeron
> > 512 MB RAM
> > Creative Sound Blaster Live - emu10k1
> >
> > I do not have this problem with other applications - xmms, mplayer
> > etc all work fine and with good sound clarity.
> >
> > Please do kindly let me know how to solve this problem of distorted
> > sound with SKYPE.
> >
> > Please help me.
> >
>
> Try to increase default buffersize, put it in your /boot/device.hints
>
> hint.pcm.0.buffersize=xxxxx (8192 , 16384, 32768, 65536, choose)
>
> You need to reload snd_emu10k1 sound driver module, or reboot. Unless
> the problem solved, please give us following informations (refer to
> http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/BUG_REPORT ).
>
>
> --
> Ariff Abdullah
> FreeBSD
>
>
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