Sound Problems

[Adam Davis]

Okay, an update on this after some testing/playing:

I experimented with various drivers, but to no avail.  I then tried a
different sound card, but the problem did not change any, so I've decided
the problem is not with the card.

Sound quality is fine (good, even) so long as I don't attempt anything
that causes large parts of the screen to change repeatedly/rapidly under
X, ie; scrolling, switching between virtual desktops, moving a window.

I tried using various MP3 players, but they all experienced the same
problem.

No matter what I do in the console, I can't get the problem to re-occur
there.  Maybe I just don't have things that take enough of the memory/cpu,
though.

So, my only conclusion is that somewhere, X is causing problems.  I'll
keep looking, but any advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  My
next step might be to steal down the latest version of XFree86-4 that the
FreeBSD people have to offer.

~Adam Davis

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Adam Davis wrote:

> Evenin'.
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> I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE.
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> I've got XFree86 4 installed, and have been using XMMS to play MP3s.  Back
> when I was with 4.4-RELEASE (and XFree86-3.3), I didn't have any
> problems.  However, since the upgrade, I get scratchy/distorted sounds
> from XMMS whenever I do anything like re-locate a window or use the scroll
> on an xterm window.
>
> Anybody got ideas on why, and how I might fix it (aside from returning to
> FreeBSD 4.4 ;)?
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> Thanks!
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> ~Adam Davis
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