uhexen, doom, heretic, etc...

[Mike Hauber]

This may be a dumb question, but I'm not sure what the problem is, 
so I don't know exactly how to go about finding the solution.

I've built/installed these games from the ports tree, and they 
start fine.  However, the sound is terrible.  The sound card 
seems to be echoing each sound at least 5 times.  This, in turn, 
slows the games down.

I've disabled KDE's sound daemon, thinking that maybe it was 
trying to play the sounds as well, but it's the same.

Anyway, I figured _someone_ on this list has probably installed 
one of these games and figured it out.
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dmesg as follows: 

FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #1: Sun Jan  9 20:50:08 EST 2005
    root at wizard.valleygate.net:/usr/src/sys/i386/compil
e/WIZARD
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (1202.73-MHz 686-class CP
U)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x644  Stepping = 4
  Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8
,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
  AMD Features=0xc0440000<RSVD,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>
real memory  = 771686400 (735 MB)
avail memory = 745390080 (710 MB)
...
pcm0: <VIA VT82C686A> port 0xe400-0xe403,0xe000-0xe003,
0xdc00-0xdcff irq 11 at device 7.5 on pci0
pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pcm0: <ICEnsemble ICE1232 AC97 Codec>
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Thanks.

Mike



btw...  What the _heck_ does "GIANT-LOCKED" mean, anyway?