skype on current/5.x and maestro-2E sound

[Divacky Roman]

On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 02:41:24AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> cpghost at cordula.ws wrote:
> >On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 06:51:48PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >
> >>Has anyone run skype successfully on these versions (5 or 6) of freeBSD?
> >>I can run it successfully on 4.x but on my 5.x machine the audio is 
> >>completely
> >>broken up. like someone is chopping the audio stream.
> >
> >
> >I'm running Skype on 5.4 (via82c686). On an AMD Duron 1200 MHz, the
> >sound quality is all right; on an EPIA 5000 Eden 500 MHz (also via82c686),
> >the sound is totally chopped and it is impossible to follow.
> 
> hmm so maybe its the fact that my machine is too slow.. it's also 500MHz
> my 1GHz 4.11 machine seems to run it fine.

I have exactly the same problem (broken sound)
pcm0: <VIA VT8237> at io 0xe800 irq 12 kld snd_via8233 (5p/1r/0v channels
duplex default)

and athlon xp 2.5GHz (on 6-c)

so I dont think its speed related

roman