Re: hd audio problem

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:55:46 +0200
Eugene Doer <doer_at_rambler.ru> wrote:
> Hi !
> I'm trying to get rid of my sound card lags (snd_hda driver). The 
> problem is:  the sound is often stopping for a small amount of time.
> I'm  not having high load average, about 0.5 - 0.8.
> I've tried playing with sysctl knobs. Current values are :
> 

What application causing this?

> sysctl -a | grep snd
> 
> hw.snd.report_soft_formats: 1
> hw.snd.latency: 8
> hw.snd.latency_profile: 1
> hw.snd.feeder_buffersize: 65535
> hw.snd.feeder_rate_min: 1
> hw.snd.feeder_rate_max: 2016000
> hw.snd.feeder_rate_round: 25
> hw.snd.verbose: 1
> hw.snd.default_unit: 0
> hw.snd.maxautovchans: 8
> 
> my hardware from dmesg :
> 
> dmesg | grep pcm
> pcm0: <NVidia MCP51 High Definition Audio Controller> mem 
> 0xfe024000-0xfe027fff irq 21 at device 16.1 on pci0
> pcm0: <HDA Codec: Analog Device AD1986A>
> pcm0: <HDA Driver Revision: 20070128_0039>
> 
> uname -a
> FreeBSD doer.home.net 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Tue Feb 20
> 
> 17:01:35 UTC 2007     root_at_doer.home.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DOER 
> i386
> 



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