On Friday 24 September 2004 07:47 pm, Glenn McCord wrote: > > <> > > Have no fear...you can do all that and MUCH more. I had the same > > transitional > > plan you did...and I'm VERY happy withj my 1010LT. > > > > > > I use a distro that has rpms and alsa is built into the kernel so I'm not > > sure. It looks to me like oyur starting from scratch with alsa... > > > > Also, at the bottom of that alsa page there's some .asoundrc > > examples...the > > one for the "hoontech" works well. It shows 10 ins and 12 outs which > > is odd > > but it does give you your multi channel functionality. > > Okay, so I've done all that and the card can record and playback with > ardour and jack. However xmms is packing a sad. It comes up with that > all to familiar dialog box saying taht I should check if the correct > output is selected, that no program is blocking the soundcard, or that > the soundcard is configured properly. If I change the output to OSS > instead of ALSA, it works but I'm sure I should be able to get that > thing working with alsa. > > To make matters worse, a small tragedy is unfolding on my Linux box. > Once upon a time with my SB Live! I could have hundreds of programs > running, playing, doing whatever and I would never ever get a single > xrun. I don't know what I have done lately, whether it was from > upgrading to xorg or having two soundcards in one machine but now I get > xruns all over the show. Jack doesn't cut ardour out anymore but there > is all the clipping and popping in the recording. What settings in jack? > > I have spent countless hours getting xruns to go away. To have them > mysteriously show up again is such a <enter really violent expletive > here>. I even went from xorg 6.8 to 6.7 to xfree86 just to see if that > got rid of them. I went back to the SB Live! and they were still there. > I have 1GB free and no other settings bar the ones mentioned in this > thread have changed and now I may as well count 3 days of my life gone > when I get around to fixing it again. <sigh> Graphics are the biggest killer for system rescources AFAIK but it could be kernel stuff too...maybe > > Anyhow, would having two cards in the machine be screwing things up? Has > anyone got some advice to get xmms to use alsa? adding another pci device can change your irq's around... try /dev/proc/interrupts and see where your 1010LT is. Needs to be preferably not on shared irq and with only like rtc, system stuff before it. > > I'm a gentooer by the way. There aint too much stuff about 1010LTs on > the forums. > > Cheers, > Glenn
