Sound card noises on graphics card access

From: Thomas Schuerger (schuerge_at_wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de)
Date: 06/10/03

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    Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:17:29 +0200
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    Hi,

    I have the following problem with FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE (running XFree86
    4.2.0).

    Recently, my AGP graphics card (Matrox G200) stopped working (a hardware
    defect), so I used a rather old PCI Mach64 card instead. I also have
    a Soundblaster AWE 64 (ISA, using pcm) in my box.

    Now, whenever the PCI bus is accessed while the soundcard plays something (e.g.
    by moving windows around or playing a movie), I can actually *hear* the bus
    accesses in my loudspeakers (very short and frequent pauses and clicking
    noises - several per second, which sounds rather strange).

    It was the same (but the noises where extremely rare) when my MGA 200 was still
    working, but with the PCI card, it is really horrible.

    When using Win98, my system behaves normally (no strange noises can be
    heard on graphics access).

    I figure this being a driver problem. What can I do about that? Are
    there any parameters I may have forgotten to set?

    Any help is appreciated!

    An excerpt from my boot messages (if you need more, let me know):

    ---
    sab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0
    isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
    atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0xd800-0xd80f at device 4.1 on pci0
    ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
    ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
    pci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> at 4.2 irq 11
    Timecounter "PIIX"  frequency 3579545 Hz
    chip1: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 4.3 on pci0
    ahc0: <Adaptec aic7890/91 Ultra2 SCSI adapter> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xe1000000-0xe1000fff irq 11 at device 6.0 on pci0
    aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
    vr0: <VIA VT6102 Rhine II 10/100BaseTX> port 0xb800-0xb8ff mem 0xe0800000-0xe08000ff irq 11 at device 9.0 on pci0
    vr0: Ethernet address: 00:50:ba:f2:e0:78
    miibus0: <MII bus> on vr0
    ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
    ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
    pci0: <3Dfx Voodoo 2 graphics accelerator> at 10.0
    pci0: <ATI Mach64-VT graphics accelerator> at 12.0
    isa0: too many dependant configs (8)
    isa0: unexpected small tag 14
    orm0: <Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0
    fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
    fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
    atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
    atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
    psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
    psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
    vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
    sc0: <System console> on isa0
    sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200>
    ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
    ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
    ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold
    sbc0: <Creative SB AWE64> at port 0x220-0x22f,0x330-0x331,0x388-0x38b irq 5 drq 1,5 on isa0
    pcm0: <SB16 DSP 4.16> on sbc0
    APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery
    APIC_IO: routing 8254 via IOAPIC #0 intpin 2
    IP packet filtering initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to deny, unlimited logging
    SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
    ---
    Greetings,
    Thomas.
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