John Anderson wrote: >On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 13:34 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > >>>I would like to know your advice about external soundcard (with ieee >>>1394 port) recognize by linux. >>> >>> >>ieee 1394 is not yet optimal supported on Linux, but see freebob.sf.net >>for some details, including working devices. >> >> >> >>>My native soundcard is not full eqquiped in input/output port that >>>why i'm searching for a soundcard with rca/xlr/jack connections. >>> >>>I'm running under debian sarge with a 2.6.14 kernel. >>> >>> >>If you're not bound to the firewire port and you're interested in a >>painless solution, I can recommend USB 1.1 devices (AFAIK there are no >>USB 2.0 devices known to work under Linux). >> >> > >So are there no longer latency issues with USB audio? > >bye >John > > > > > > I tried more than an USB 1.1 soundcard on different operating systems, and I think you can't go beyond 5.6ms, setting -p64 -n4 in jackd (this is what I use with my UA-25). But even that is less latency that I used to get with my old PCI soundcard (EgoSys Waveterminal 24/96) on WinXP. This was an expensive professional soundcard when I bought it six years ago. It's just my experience, but with gnu/Linux, jack and the alsa-usb-audio driver you get far lower latencies than when using other operating systems. Ciao, c. www.cesaremarilungo.com
