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

From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu_at_people.tecnik93.com>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 22:15:22 +0300
On Sun, 15 May 2005 20:59:50 +0200
Pav Lucistnik <pav_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Ion-Mihai Tetcu pí¨e v ne 15. 05. 2005 v 21:51 +0300:
> > On Sun, 15 May 2005 20:35:40 +0200
> > Pav Lucistnik <pav_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Is this with via8235/8237 on -STABLE ?
> 
> pcm0: <VIA VT8237> port 0xb400-0xb4ff irq 22 at device 17.5 on pci0
> pcm0: <Avance Logic ALC850 AC97 Codec>
> 
> Both RELENG_5/i386 and RELENG_5/amd64 (different boards, same chip)


Yup, I got one of this.


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Received on Sun May 15 2005 - 17:14:21 UTC

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