Re: Tragic State of FreeBSD Audio/Sound
Nuno Teixeira <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:09:17 +0100
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--000000000000ecd41906579ef9f1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > If you're experiencing "buzz" like I think you are then it's the same > frame being queued > over and over again to the DAC. Typically I've only seen that happen here > when I > have the kernel panic (we're not stopping audio DMA at this point, and > I don't know > why it's looping over.) > > <snip> > > Even in the year of our lord "LLMs are available" there's only so much > one can do > in long email threads; at some point bugs need reproducing, PRs need > filing and > developer / user time needs to happen. Let's be methodical about it to > help out > the sound folks in figuring it out. > > > > -adrian > > Hello, I usually linten to youtube when doing poudriere builds. Music helps the process and poudriere build better. I use an usb dac with: hw.snd.latency=10 hw.usb.uaudio.buffer_ms=8 IMHO it helps a little. Thanks, -- Nuno Teixeira FreeBSD UNIX: <[email protected]> Web: https://FreeBSD.org --000000000000ecd41906579ef9f1 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail= _quote_container"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px= 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div> If you're experiencing "buzz" like I think you are then it= 9;s the same<br> frame being queued<br> over and over again to the DAC. Typically I've only seen that happen he= re when I<br> have the kernel panic (we're not stopping audio DMA at this point, and<= br> I don't know<br> why it's looping over.)<br><br></div><snip><div><br> Even in the year of our lord "LLMs are available" there's onl= y so much<br> one can do<br> in long email threads; at some point bugs need reproducing, PRs need filing= and<br> developer / user time needs to happen. Let's be methodical about it to = help out<br> the sound folks in figuring it out.<br> <br> <br> <br> -adrian<br> <br> </div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Hello,<br><br></div><div>I usu= ally linten to youtube when doing poudriere builds. Music helps the process= and poudriere build better.<br><br></div><div>I use an usb dac with:<br><b= r>hw.snd.latency=3D10<br>hw.usb.uaudio.buffer_ms=3D8<br><br></div><div>IMHO= it helps a little.<br><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><br><span class=3D"gmail= _signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_signature"= ><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><font color=3D"#888888">Nuno Teixeira</font></div><d= iv><div><font color=3D"#888888"> FreeBSD UNIX:=C2=A0 <[email protected]>=C2=A0 =C2=A0Web:=C2=A0 <a h= ref=3D"https://FreeBSD.org" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://Fr= eeBSD.org</a><br></font></div></div></div></div></div> --000000000000ecd41906579ef9f1--