Re: FreeBSD sound distortion problems with SB Live! fixed with PREEMPTION

From: Atte Peltomaki <koston_at_iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 18:20:22 +0200
> > To my amazement, it worked completely. Enabling PREEMPTION in the kernel
> > completely "fixes" this problem to the fullest extent. I have not been
> > able to reproduce the problem since using any of the methods described
> > above.
> > 
> > I'm hoping that with this new information someone might be able to
> > figure out what is truly causing this problem and can come up with a
> > solution (or is PREEMPTION a good solution?). It seems that only a
> > handful of drivers (emu10k1 is the one I'm having problems with) have
> > this problem. For the record, I am not the only one who has reported
> > this problem to the lists.
> 
> I also experience the same problems with sound you've described.
> 
> As PREEMPTION seems to stable for you, I tried to turn it on again.
> 
> Unfortunately PREEMPTION remains to be completely unusable for me. The
> system freezes within 5 minutes.
> 
> The problem is described here:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-September/037949.html
> 
> I wonder if no one else gets this kind of problem.

Last I was running -current, PREEMPTION was just brought back, but it
remained completely unusable for me too. Complete system freeze with no
panic, in matter of minutes. 


-Atte
Received on Wed Dec 08 2004 - 16:40:52 UTC

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