Skype on FreeBSD - distorted sound - Please help to solve

[Robert Nicholson]

HI,

I have a 3 speaker system. I am not into sound engineering so much, so
please excuse my ignorance on these things. Exactly which is the sub
woofer ? I have a large speaker and 2 small speakers... All the three
sound fine.

Sorry, I am ignorant on this one.

Regards,
Michael.

On 3/28/06, freebsd at alvatec.ro <freebsd at alvatec.ro> wrote:
> Hello Robert!
> Does your SB Live! from DELL support Center/Sub Woofer sound and/or rear
> speaker sound ? Because I didn't get it working on my RELENG_6! Somebody
> told me to use opensound.com drivers... But it's still not working !!!
>
> I don't mind if my rear speakers doesn't work with stereo music played
> with XMMS, but I want SubWoffer to work !
>
> Thanks for your time !
>
> > 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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