AC '97 Audio Plays Fast

Hi, sound plays too fast on my system. I had the same problem with Solaris, and it was fixed with the information below. I guess I don't know if this is the right mailing list for this discussion. Below is the information. E-mail me with questions. Thanks for your help.

Marc

• Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 16:05:52 +0200 (MEST) From: Juergen Keil <jk@tools.de> To: merkurie@m-net.arbornet.org Subject: Re: audioi810 & Solaris 9

Marc,

> > Hi, I don't know if you remember me or not, but I was the person in the
> > solarisonintel Yahoo Group that had a problem with the sound going to
> > fast. We chatted back and fourth a few times, and finally you figured it
> > out. Well, I am trying OpenBSD out with this same system for the first
> > time. It also has the same problem, I was wondering if you could tell me
> > what it was you did so I can post to a OpenBSD mailing list.
> > Thank you for your time.
>
> I think it was this patch (for the linux alsa sound drivers) ...
>
> http://www.alsa-project.org/archive/alsa-user/msg08787.html
>
> ... that tried to solve exactly the same problem. I've adapted the
> patch to my audio drivers and replaced the hardcoded 'magic' value
> 41194 with a user configurable parameter.
>
> It seems the latest linux alsa drivers are now trying to measure the
> AC'97 codec clock rate.

Btw, apparently NetBSD does the same:

http://www.de.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/pci/auich.c?rev=1.36&cvsroo t=netbsd

See the auich_calibrate() function at the end of the auich.c file.

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