Hallo, nigel henry hat gesagt: // nigel henry wrote: > Hi Frank. Using a dodgy kernel eh! Not anymore since 10 minutes: Now I run my own personal kernel again like it should be: vanilla 2.6.11-12 from kernel.org, preempt enabled. > I've being viewing your posts , and sort of wanting to help, scanned > the synaptic list. I had 2.4.27 kernel and 2.6.8. Having now found ... > also that the 2 modules I've mentioned should really be loaded as > default. Just giving my 2 cents worth. Hope you get it fixed. Nigel. Actually I don't have a problem with soundcards not working, I was just experimenting with Clemens' suggestion of using the "nrpacks=1" option to snd-usb-audio to get the lowest possible latencies for USB. With my new kernel with disabled USB bandwidth allocation, I'm currently test-running alsaplayer over jackd on a cheapo Terratec Aureon USB with jackd started as: $ /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:1 -r48000 -p128 -n3 -S and that translates to a latency as displayed by qjackctl of 8msec. (/me plays around with qjacktl ...) And now it's at: $ jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:1 -r48000 -p64 -n3 -S Latency: 4msec, still no xruns with alsaplayer (I even switched to a virtual console... ;) And now: a period of 32! $ /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:1 -r48000 -p32 -n3 -S jackd 0.99.54 Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others. jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details JACK compiled with System V SHM support. loading driver .. apparent rate = 48000 creating alsa driver ... hw:1|hw:1|32|3|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|16bit control device hw:1 configuring for 48000Hz, period = 32 frames, buffer = 3 periods ALSA: cannot set period size to 32 frames for capture ALSA: cannot configure capture channel cannot load driver module alsa Ah, okay, you jus' gotta know when to stop. ;) Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__ _ __latest track: "scans" _ http://footils.org/cms/show/41