Re: Inspiron 8000 & Maestro 3
Joe Marcus Clarke <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 04:25, Matthew Luckie wrote: > 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. You're right. I'f I kick off xmms, then run apm a few times, the sounds slows down and distorts. It actually adds a nice effect when listening to Disturbed ;-). I usually never run battstat programs since this laptop is almost always plugged in. Even rtprio doesn't help anything. Joe > > > : > 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 > [email protected] > > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message