Audigy LS + FreeBSD 5.4 + oss 3994a = LOUD HISS!

[vinny]

I have a new Audigy LS, funning FreeBSD 5.4 and just installed oss 3994a. Anytime audio is playing be it from a flash presentation or from xmms, all I get is a loud hiss. If there is any sound, the hiss is drowning it out. It passes the sound test but what's coming out is a broken up hissing sound - so perhaps something is there but it's just not detectable.

Anyone have any suggestions??

[dev]

I have a new Audigy LS, funning FreeBSD 5.4 and just installed oss 3994a. Anytime audio is playing be it from a flash presentation or from xmms, all I get is a loud hiss. If there is any sound, the hiss is drowning it out. It passes the sound test but what's coming out is a broken up hissing sound - so perhaps something is there but it's just not detectable.

Anyone have any suggestions??

Run soundoff and soundon and see if that helps. In XMMS, configure one of the Virtual Mixer devices and see if that helps. Try this rm /dev/dsp; ln -s /dev/dsp6 /dev/dsp and then run flash or XMMS


regards
Dev

[vinny]

None of the above. Still that same hissing.

[dev]

None of the above. Still that same hissing.

That means your hardware is bad or you didn't plug it it correctly because I just tested AudigyLS on FreeBSD 6.0 on both AMD64 and i386 and it works fine.


regards
Dev

[vinny]

What chipset is in the LS you're testing? This one doesn't have the emu10k dsp it has the CA0106-DAT. Is it even supported?

[dev]

What chipset is in the LS you're testing? This one doesn't have the emu10k dsp it has the CA0106-DAT. Is it even supported?

Yes, my card has that exact chip.



regards
Dev Mazumdar

[Nightweaver]

Hi,

I have the same problem with loud "hiss" sound. Have you been able to solve it?

Here is the spec for my card:

none2@pci5:6:0: class=0x040100 card=0x100a1102 chip=0x00071102 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Creative Labs'
device = 'CA0106-DAT Audigy LS'
class = multimedia
subclass = audio

cat /dev/sndstat
OSS/FreeBSD 3.99.4b (C) 4Front Technologies 1996-2006

License serial number: E00000010
**** UNREGISTERED VERSION ****

Drivers: ALL
License will expire after: 12/2006


*** Unregistered version ***

Build: 200607070150
Kernel: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #4: Tue May 9 20:32:27 CEST 2006
root@localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP


Card config:
Audigy-LS at 0xa000 irq 16

Audio devices:
0: AudigyLS front (GRC3)
1: AudigyLS center/lfe (GRC3)
2: AudigyLS record (GRC3)
3: AudigyLS surround (GRC3)
4: AudigyLS 5.1 output (GRC3)
5: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #0 (GRC3)
6: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #1 (GRC3)
7: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #2 (GRC3)
8: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #3 (GRC3)
9: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #4 (GRC3)
10: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #5 (GRC3)
11: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #6 (GRC3)
12: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #7 (GRC3)

Synth devices:
0: OSS Virtual Synth v2.5

Midi devices:
0: AudigyLS UART

Mixers:
0: AudigyLS Mixer
1: Virtual Mixer


When I run the test it starts making that noise..at least I know that all 6 speakers are working ok. When I start KDE it freezes for a moment then it continues working fine but gives me this mesasage: Sound server fatal error: CPU overload.aborting. I've configured it as it is said in README.

What am I missing?

[kash]

I don't know what you're doing to get it to work, dev, but my box isn't so lucky.

MOBO: ECS 755-A2
Card: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 SE (comes up as audigy LS)
FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE-200606

I've tried a *lot* of different things with this card. The FreeBSD/amd64 OSS driver makes a hiss, the i386 driver makes a hiss, the linux amd64 and i686 drivers hiss. I'm at a loss. I see a lot of people that have this problem, yet you're not willing to look into it, just "it works for me (TM)".

regards,
Kash Pande

[lucifernando]

Hi,

I have an on-board sound with motherboard P5VDC-X and am having the same problem on Ubuntu 6.06... the sound keep hissing everytime on MP3, AVI's, games, system messages... it does that ugly hiss whenever it emits sound.

Does anybody have any suggestions?