Re: [9fans] Audio with QEMU

["Salva Peiró" <saoret.one@gmail.com>]

On 1/2/00, john@csplan9.rit.edu <john@csplan9.rit.edu> wrote:
>
> Well, I've got my QEMU terminal booting and mounting the filesystem
> over the network. Now I'd like to get audio working, so I start QEMU
> with the -soundhw sb16 option and put the following in plan9.ini:
>
> audio0=type=sb16 irq=5 port=0x220 dma=5
>
> When I reboot and 'bind -a '#A' /dev', I can now use madplay to play
> an mp3, but the output I get is very scratchy and generally ugly, like
> a terribly static-garbled radio station. Can anyone with experience in
> this give me some pointers? Thanks.
>
>
>
> John Floren
>
>
When I use madplay on Plan 9 native, sound cuts since it's a slow machine,
so I give madplay a higher priority and then it sounds fine:

# the details are covered by proc(3) /Priorities/
pid=`{ps | awk '/madplay/ {print $2}'
cat /proc/$pid/status
echo pri 18 > /proc/$pid/ctl
cat /proc/$pid/status

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salva