Bug 32297

Summary: Scratchy sound, bad hiss with ALS4000 based sound card
Product: Base System Reporter: Skye Poier <skye>
Component: miscAssignee: sound
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Skye Poier 2001-11-26 18:00:02 UTC
Install an "ASound Express 32-bit PnP" PCI sound card, with the ALS4000 chipset.  The sound is extremely harsh and "clipped" and there's a loud hissing sound too.  Tried adjusting all levels, moving the card, etc to no avail.

> cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Nov 21 2001 10:02:21
Installed devices:
pcm0: <Avance Logic ALS4000> at io 0xdc00 irq 11 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex)
Comment 1 Kris Kennaway freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-01-06 04:27:33 UTC
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->sound

Over to the sound maintainers
Comment 2 orion freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-07-22 02:10:57 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Could not reproduce problem and timing it out.  Believe it was due to 
PCI latency being set too small in BIOS on machine in question: other 
users have reported similar problem on different h/w when this was the 
case, though I could not reproduce this with any PCI latency setting 
at home...