Reported by: Nick Withers < nick AT nickwithers DOT com >
Tested by: Nick Withers < nick AT nickwithers DOT com >
No objection from: ariff
MFC after: 1 week
is interaction between in-kernel sound buffer handling and hardware.
With small buffer, there are times when both harwdare reads and
kernel writes to the same buffer (it is only visible on slow machines, i
think). I'm digging in channel.c and buffer.c to find a solution that
allow use of large hardware buffers without sound lags - hardware can
handle buffers up to 32Mb."
Submitted by: Yuriy Tsibizov <Yuriy.Tsibizov@gfk.ru>
- fix "No sound in KDE":
The problem is related to the implementation of Envy24(1712) hardware
mixer support in the driver. Envy24(1712) has very precise 36bit wide
hardware mixer, which is superior that vchans (software sound mixer in
the kernel). The driver supports Envy24(1712) hardware mixer, so up to
10 channels (5 stereo pairs) can be playback simultaneously.
However, there are problems with the implementation of Envy24(1712)
hardware mixer support in the driver, one of them is the problem with
"no sound in KDE":
When playing back several channels simultaneously and
stoping one of the channels, sound starts to stutter and
plays at very low speed.
Another problem is:
Playing back simultaneously more than one 24bit/32bit
sound file or 16bit sound file and 24bit/32bit sound
file doesn't work as expected.
Submitted by: "Konstantin Dimitrov" <kosio.dimitrov@gmail.com>
from a semantic point of view, but I notified the author of the driver
for confirmation. So far it at least fixes the build and should only
lead to not identifying or wrongly identifying a soundcard in the worst
case.
sound cards with optional pseudo-multichannel playback.
It's based on snd_emu10k1 sound driver. Single channel version is available
from audio/emu10kx port since some time.
The two new ALSA header files (GPLed), which contain Audigy 2 ("p16v") and
Audigy 2 Value ("p17v") specific interfaces, are latest versions from ALSA
Mercurial repository.
This is not connected to the build yet.
Submitted by: Yuriy Tsibizov <Yuriy.Tsibizov@gfk.ru>
latest version from Mercurial repository. It brings definition of some
additional Audigy 2 / Audigy 2 Value registers.
- Use new #defines from ALSA emu10k1.h
- Remove unused include files:
+ emu10k1-ac97.h was imported from ALSA and never used,
+ emu10k1.h was imported from Creative Linux emu10k1 driver, but only
AUDIGY_CODEBASE was used from it.
Submitted by: Yuriy Tsibizov <Yuriy.Tsibizov@gfk.ru>
- Enable 4 automatic vchan's by default.
- Add some comments which provide ides/questions for improvement.
- Prefix some temporary sysctl's with an underscore to denote that it is not
an official API but a workaround until the real solution is implemented.
yet. More commits to follow.
I got no response from the author, but since the driver is BSD licensed
I don't think he will complain. :-)
I got it from http://people.freebsd.org/~lofi/envy24.tar.gz
Written by: Katsurajima Naoto <raven@katsurajima.seya.yokohama.jp>
but large parts are rewritten by matk and tanimura.
This is old code, it's not maintained since 2003. We also don't have a
maintainer for this! Yuriy Tsibizov took it and uses it in his emu10kx
driver. Since the emu10kx driver will enter the tree "soon" (some bugs
have to be fixed after Yuriy return from his holidays), I add it here
already.
This also contains some changes to emu10k1 and cmi, so if you're lucky,
you can now make some kind of use of midi with those soundcards.
To all those poor souls which don't have such a card: feel free to send
patches, we don't have a maintainer for this.
To those which miss a specific feature in the midi code: feel free to
submit patches, we don't have a maintainer for this.
Oh, did I already told that it would be nice if someone would take care
of it? Maintainer with midi equipment wanted! :-)
If you get LOR's, submit a PR and notify multimedia@ please. If you get
panics, submit a PR with a backtrace (compile the sound system into your
kernel instead of using modules in this case) and notify multimedia@
please.
Written by: matk, tanimura
Submitted by: "Yuriy Tsibizov" <Yuriy.Tsibizov@gfk.ru>
Based upon: code from NetBSD
but large parts are rewritten by matk and tanimura.
This is old code, it's not maintained since 2003. We also don't have a
maintainer for this! Yuriy Tsibizov took it and uses it in his emu10kx
driver. Since the emu10kx driver will enter the tree "soon" (some bugs
have to be fixed after Yuriy return from his holidays), I add it here
already.
This also contains some changes to emu10k1 and cmi, so if you're lucky,
you can now make some kind of use of midi with those soundcards.
To all those poor souls which don't have such a card: feel free to send
patches, we don't have a maintainer for this.
To those which miss a specific feature in the midi code: feel free to
submit patches, we don't have a maintainer for this.
Oh, did I already told that it would be nice if someone would take care
of it? Maintainer with midi equipment wanted! :-)
If you get LOR's, submit a PR and notify multimedia@ please. If you get
panics, submit a PR with a backtrace (compile the sound system into your
kernel instead of using modules in this case) and notify multimedia@
please.
Written by: matk, tanimura
Submitted by: "Yuriy Tsibizov" <Yuriy.Tsibizov@gfk.ru>
Based upon: code from NetBSD
A slight difference of this chip from its previous siblings is that
it need a gentle "wake up" on every (full) DMA buffer completion to
avoid stalled interrupt handler.
Thanks to George Hartzell for permission on doing remote debugging.
Prime MFC candidate for 6.1-RELEASE. Please reply to this commit if
there are any objections (so I won't bug re@), since the changes
are too small and only specific to VT8251.
PR: i386/95949
Tested by: [1] George Hartzel
myself (remotely)
MFC after: 3 days
[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2006-April/004003.html
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- Seal the fate of long standing memory leak (4 years, 7 months) during
pcm_unregister(). While destroying cdevs, scan / detect possible
children and free its SLIST placeholder properly.
- Optimize channel allocation / numbering even further. Do brute cyclic
checking only if the channel numbering screwed.
- Mega vchan create/destroy cleanup:
o Implement pcm_setvchans() so everybody can use it freely instead
of implementing their own, be it through sysctl or channel auto
allocation.
o Increase vchan creation/destruction resiliency:
+ it's possible to increase/decrease total vchans even during
busy playback/recording. Busy channel will be left alone, untouched.
Abusive test sample:
# play whatever...
#
while : ; do
sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=1
sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=10
sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=100
sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=200
done
# Play something else, leave above loop running frantically.
+ Seal another 4 years old bug where it is possible to destroy (virtual)
channel even when its cdevs being referenced by other process.
The "First Come First Served" nature of dsp_clone() is the main
culprit of this issue, and usually manifest itself as dangling
channel <-> process association. Ensure that all of its cdevs
are free from being referenced before destroying it (through
ORPHAN_CDEVT() macross).
All these fixes (including previous fixes) will be MFCed, later.
to avoid possible device unregister race (impossible to reproduce, yet
possible).
- Extra sanity check to ensure proper parent channel is being selected.
- Reset parent channel once all of its children gone.
- [1] Make the driver friendly towards kernel without PREEMPTION.
Use msleep(9) instead of simple unlock-check_variable-lock mechanisme
since the later not really effective in non-preemptible kernel
(especially during codec detection routine).
- Free most driver resources in a sane manner to avoid possible
double free and panics especially during device detach and codec
detection failure.
MFC after: 3 days
[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-March/116515.html
- Determine open direction using 'flags', not 'mode'. This bug exist since
past 4 years.
- Don't allow opening the same device twice, be it in a same or different
direction.
- O_RDWR is allowed, provided that it is done by a single open (for example
by mixer(8)) and the underlying hardware support true full-duplex operation.
- Do various paranoid checking in case other process/thread trying to hijack
the same device twice (or more).
MFC after: 5 days
especially for vchans. It turns out that channel numbering always depend
on d->devcount counter (which keep increasing), while PCMMKMINOR() truncate
everything to 8bit length. At some point the truncation cause the newly
created character device overlapped with the existence one, causing erratic
overall system behaviour and panic. Easily reproduce with something like:
(Luckily, only root can reproduce this)
while : ; do
sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=200
sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=100
done
- Enforce channel/chardev numbering within 8bit boundary. Return E2BIG
if necessary.
- Traverse d->channels SLIST and try to reclaim "free" counter during channel
creation. Don't rely on d->devcount at all.
- Destroy vchans in reverse order.
Anyway, this is not the fault of vchans. It is just that vchans are so cute
and begging to be abused ;) . Don't blame her.
Old, hidden bugs.. sigh..
MFC after: 3 days
forcing DMA alignment to default buffer size.
- Make sure DMA pointer properly aligned to avoid being truncated by caller
which causing severe underruns and random popping (especially in 32bit
playback / recording).
- Add AC97 inverted external amplifier quirk for Maxselect x710s
- http://maxselect.ru/
MFC after: 1 week
