Re: Status of Alder Lake support

On Sat, Aug 20, 2022, 11:14 Amar Takhar <verm@darkbeer.org> wrote:

> I've run into this in my situation some BIOs updates cause constant
> reboots
> especially when playing video.  I also have serious audio issues with
> continous
> popping that I've been unable to solve there is a ticket for that as well:
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>   https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263385#add_comment
>
> I'll give CURRENT A shot again in the next day or two to see if this is
> all
> fixed thanks for the update!
>
>
> Amar.
>

Wow! That's a little more disturbing.

As to the audio issue, I've been having a similar issue for some time,
especially with Firefox using any of the available audio systems. Works
best with OSS.

What I hear is not popping, but brief dropouts which I perceived as pops.
It sounds a lot like data rate mismatch where the audio is output at a
slightly faster rate than it is input.  As a result, the buffers empty
periodically and you hear a fraction of a second of silence.

This is not an Alder Lake issue as it's been hitting me on my Comet Lake
processor.

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