I think you have to echo 2 > /proc/asound/card0/etc On debian they are in /var/log/messages,var/log/syslog , and a few other places. On Friday 16 July 2004 15:25, Florian Schmidt wrote: > after reading lee's email i had to try this kernel.. so i went over to > www.de.kernel.org, grabbed 2.6.8-rc1 and patched it up with this patch: > > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0407.1/1453.html > > On first sight it looks very good. many of the sporadic xruns i experienced > with jack in RT mode are gone. even a "find /" parallel to a "make bzImage" > seems not to provoke any xruns [i use ext3]. But: i use fluxbox and it > supports desktop wheeling [switching desktop via scrollwheel - very handy] > and doing this excessively and rapidly provokes xruns easily. Also starting > mozilla just provoked an xrun.. > > Well to provie more detailed info i thought i'd turn on xrun tracing. So > here are the steps i took: > > 1] enabled debugging in the alsa drivers [i did that when i built the > 2.6.8rc1mm1 kernel and the included alsa modules. > > 2] mango:/home/tapas# echo 1 > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/xrun_debug > mango:/home/tapas# echo 1 > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/xrun_debug > > 3] started jackd -R -d alsa -p 512 and provoked xruns, but the traces are > nowhere to be found.. where should i look? /var/log/messages - nothin; > /var/log/debug - nothing; /var/log/dmesg - nothing.. Maybe i'm just > stooopid here.. Please enlighten me. > > Thanks, > Flo