Re: PAS16 sound quality

Ian Eure (ieure@peninsula.wednet.edu)
Wed, 20 May 1998 11:41:36 -0700


Jason T. Collins wrote:

> Sean Connor wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, May 16, 1998 at 06:03:54PM -0400, Anthony DeStefano wrote:
> >
> > I'll add a "me, too" with some additional information.
> >
> > In my case, the problems only started with 2.1.102
>
> > In addition to poor quality sound, I also get frequent timeouts.
> >
> > > I also noticed some .wav files sound fine with sox but pretty bad with
> > > xanim but othere play fine with either.
> > >
> > > So has something changed in the PAS16 or other sound code that would make
> > > some apps not play sound correctly?
>
> Well, hate to add to the "me-too" category, but I have a MAD16 card and
> while I don't have any quality problems the IRQ/DRQ timeouts are very
> frequent at high sampling rates or when under load. P180MMX shouldn't
> have much trouble with this, didn't before somewhere in the 2.1.90s. I
> tried adjusting some of the
> fudge factors in the code for the timeout values, but it doesn't seem to
> help. The interrupt just isn't getting serviced fast enough.

Hmm... I remember a while back (2.0.3x series) when I had a PAS16, I had problems
with the right/left output getting reversed. I've since moved to a SB16, but I'm
fond of the PAS (better mixer controls etc) - I was thinking of dropping it into
one of my other systems. Could someone check this out and see if it's still a
problem, or if I just have a buggy hardware?

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