Re: Inspiron 8000 & Maestro 3

This is a reply to a really old message from back in March.  I reported 
that the sound was sounding slow on my dell inspiron 8000 with a maestro 
3 sound card.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=191566+193956+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-mobile/20020317.freebsd-mobile

I just figured out what was going on.

I run wmbattery in the windowmaker dock.  Each second it polls for the 
status of the batteries, which coincides with the sound slowing down 
briefly.  If I use /usr/sbin/apm I get the same slow-down as wmbattery.

I'm not sure if this is specific to my laptop (Inspiron 8000 with a 
maestro3 soundcard running FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE from a few hours ago) 
but I'd thought I'd report it anyway.

> : > Sound works great for me on my Maestro3 in my 8100.  However, I load the
> : > module from loader.conf.  I had some problems loading it after booting.
> : > The only change to the driver was a return code change a few weeks ago.
> : > It hasn't been MFC'd yet, but I don't think it would contribute to popping
> : > sounds.
> : 
> : well i've loaded it from loader.conf and it hasnt made any difference. 
> : it almost sounds like the music is running slow.
> pcm0: <ESS Technology Maestro3> port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 0xf6ffe000-0xf6ffffff irq 5 at device 3.0 on pci2
> ...
> 
> xmms works for me when I do this.  I'm using the maestro3 code that's
> in the tree without any special hacks.
> 
> I do sometimes need to do rtprio on xmms when the interrupt latency
> sucks, but i haven't had to do that since xmas or so.
> 
> Warner
> 
> 

-- 
Matthew Luckie
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