On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:14:29AM -0500, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 01:37:27AM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 05:23:09PM -0500, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm running > > > > > > OpenBSD paranoiac.blackhelicopters.org 4.5 GENERIC.MP#82 i386 > > > > > > on a Toshiba Satellite P105-S6179. Fresh install, not an upgrade. > > > Widescreen works beautifully with 915resolution package, ACPI made the > > > fan start when necessary, everything seems good... except sound. > > > > > > MP3 playback is fast. Not terribly fast, just a little bit fast. My > > > VNV Nation sounds like they've taken a little bit too much speed, and > > > John Fogerty sounds like he's been kicked in the fork. Everything is > > > understandable, but just that little bit too fast. > > > > > > I've solved any number of "no sound" problems, but this is a new one. > > > The archives include reports of this issue years ago, but nothing > > > current. Any suggestions? > > > > what applications are playing too fast? that's far more iportant than > > who's voice sounds like what. it sounds like 44.1kHz media being played > > at 48kHz. there are suggestions in tha FAQ. > > You're right, thank you. > > The rest is mostly for the archives: > > mpg123 reports 44.1kHz media and the azalia0 sound card reports > play.rate=48000. (I have hundreds of gigs of MP3s at 44.1kHz, so I'm > not about to start over from that end. :-) > > Changing play.rate to 44100 doesn't work, and the archives show it > won't with an azalia sound card.
that depends on the codec. some azalia's support many different sample rates, others only support one or a few. > Madplay does work correctly, though. And I can use madplay as an > input engine for XMMS through audio/xmms-madplay. It looks like > audacious is a better choice, however, as xmms is slowly dying. > > And the end result is: > > audacious plays everything fine. The volume control doesn't seem to > work, but I have a physical volume dial. > > Thanks, > ==ml > > -- > Michael W. Lucas mwlu...@blackhelicopters.org, mwlu...@freebsd.org > http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ > "My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of > the pessimists." -- Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher > -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
