snd_hda extremely choppy on 7-beta2

[Norberto Meijome]

On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:56:59 -0600
Thomas Donnelly <Tad1214 at aol.com> wrote:

> I recently installed 7.0 and cvsupd to 7.0-beta2 right away.
> I have snd_hda set to load in via /boot/loader.conf
> Whenever ANY sound plays, be it KDE sounds, noatun, amarok, etc. it is 
> VERY choppy, not start and stop, but skipping chunks. (IE song would be 
> ABCDEFGHIJ, plays ABEGJ)
> Something misconfigured? I tried setting buffer to maximum and realtime 
> priority via control center in kde.
> 

hi Tom,
I've posted along the same lines , but under 6.2, a while back. Search the archives for :

Subject: [snd_hda] Choppiness under high cpu - STABLE
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 13:41:58 +1000

I have had somewhat similar issues with XMMS under 7 , XFCE4. there was a recent post in stable, which I brought over to multimedia@ with some descriptions of the issues.

B

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