2002-Nov-28

Last winter, I hand-merged in the code from -current into 1.5.2 so I could use my SiS 7018 using the autri(4) driver.

It sounded terrible. The sound had a constant buzzing, drumming, echoing, sound. I could hear the music or audio, but the additional noise made it hard to listen too. (It sounds like some type of special sound effect where it echos the audio -- maybe some people would like it.)

So later when I upgraded to 1.6 (which had support for the sound hardware), the audio was improved but still had that drumming, clicking, echoing noise.

Today, I realized it was just the left channel. So I used:

$ mixerctl -w outputs.master=0,150
outputs.master: 7,151 -> 7,151

This makes it useful. Although with volume 7, I can still hear it a little.

The hardware is:

autri0 at pci0 dev 1 function 4: Silicon Integrated System SiS 7018 Sound
(rev. 0x02)
autri0: interrupting at irq 11
autri0: CMI65 codec; no 3D stereo
audio0 at autri0: full duplex, mmap, independent
midi0 at autri0: 4DWAVE MIDI UART

pkgsrc/www/dillo wouldn't build. The Makefile defined a -D macro in the CFLAGS, but wasn't used:

prefs.c:246: `PKG_SYSCONFDIR' undeclared (first use in this function)

I send-pr'd some patches: pkg/19199: new dillo update needs CFLAGS fixed (I closed on 19/Mar/2004: It appears the original issue doesn't hit me anymore..)