Fw: sound issues in -CURRENT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jesse marquez" <jmarquez_at_x25.net>
To: "Nathan Seven" <scosol_at_yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: sound issues in -CURRENT


> I'm kinda having a sound issue too. I've done quit a bit of research and i
> can't really iron out the actual solution. I'm trying to get sound output
> out of my boston acoustic digital speakers. I'm able to get sound out of
my
> headphones with out any problems, and it sounds great! I would really like
> to get output with my speakers though. As far as drivers are concerned,
> emu10k1(sound blaster live!value) seems fine and loads properly. Virtual
> Channels have also been set, i belive it has something to do with setting
> output to use digital out only. I recall that in win32 i had to enable the
> "digital output only" to get my speakers to work. Any thoughts guys?
>
> over and out,
> -jesse
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Nathan Seven" <scosol_at_yahoo.com>
> To: "Ryan Freeman" <ryan_at_slipgate.org>; <freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 12:25 PM
> Subject: Re: sound issues in -CURRENT
>
>
> > Right- There is *definitely* some sound problems
> > here...
> >
> > My symptoms have ranged from non-playback and softlock
> > of xmms, to a constant looping sample, to occasional
> > pops and slow/speedy playback.
> > I have my audio apps pointed at /dev/dspW0.0- and have
> > had circumstances where xmms could not playback
> > through the device, but after killing it, mplayer
> > could.
> > Then other circumstances where just no sound worked at
> > all- and the apps would just kinda hang-
> > I reverted to some unknown kernel from 2 weeks back or
> > so and it works reliably with the popping (which I can
> > live with)
> > Incidently, in this state, XMMS experiences these
> > problems but mplayer never does while playing movies.
> > And yes, I've disabled all of the kernel
> > debugging/spin checking/witness invariant stuff- it
> > seems to make no difference.
> >
> >
> > --- Ryan Freeman <ryan_at_slipgate.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:06:05 +1100
> > > matti k <matti_at_optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 07:05:24 -0800
> > > > Ryan Freeman <ryan_at_slipgate.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > hello, i've searched the web for hours and hours
> > > and only found one
> > > > > hint of evidence that i'm not the only one with
> > > the following
> > > > > problem.
> > > >
> > > > Try a search that's not FreeBSD specific.
> > > >
> > > > > i found this post from several months ago that
> > > details the
> > > > > same problem i'm having:
> > > >
> > > > My solutoin was more bad luck than anything else.
> > > I had a motherboard
> > > > fail and the replacement has onboard sound, which
> > > works fine. I'm half
> > > > tempted to try the sblive card, just to see what
> > > would happen with the
> > > > new motherboard and power supply.
> > >
> > > well, the sound works fine in any other os for as
> > > long as i have my box
> > > on...so i don't see how i would need a new
> > > motherboard. perhaps the
> > > chipset on this motherboard is slightly incompatible
> > > with freebsd at
> > > this point and thats what is causing the problem but
> > > i used debian on
> > > here for about 2 years and never did i have a
> > > problem. it seems quite
> > > unlikely that suddenly the motherboard would break
> > > just in time for
> > > freebsd to be installed :P the motherboard is an ecs
> > > k7s5a. oh and
> > > between the time that the sound started screwing up
> > > and now i have put
> > > in a spare harddrive to put win2k on and during the
> > > few days that i used
> > > that the sound never had a problem, either.
> > >
> > > - ryan
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