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

Edwin L. Culp píše v ne 15. 05. 2005 v 12:14 -0500:
> Quoting Divacky Roman <xdivac02_at_stud.fit.vutbr.cz>:
> 
> > 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)
> 
> I had this on all my AMD/Athlon boards with the via sound chipset.  I 
> found a reference to the problem, no solution, on one of the Skype 
> BB's.  I finally just disabled the onboard sound and added cheap 
> available sound cards and they all have worked great.  I've tried to 
> get the via sound to work a couple of times after that, without success.

Same story, different solution. With Open Sound drivers from
www.opensound.com Skype works correctly.

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