On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 08:01:16PM -0500, Reuben Martin wrote: > On 9/6/05, Michael Rudolf <mich.rudolf@xxxxxx> wrote: > I'm the guy who tries to keep that page up-to-date. I use the Digi 96/8 PAD. > I've found the card to work quite well. While it may not have as many > bells and whistles as the Hammerfall series, I've not run into any > problems with it for quite some time. Most issues I had with it have > been fixed for almost 2 years now. > I've run jack with reduced number of periods without any problem. > You're output lookes like you have issues elsewhere though to fix > before worrying about the numer of periods you use. The xruns, > messages about interrupt delays, and driver messages suggest you have > problems that need fixed berfore jack will ever work well, reguardelss > of the number of periods you use. > Paul Davis wrote: > > where does it say this? the digi96/8 is an entirely different product > > (different h/w design, different chipset, different interactions with > > the host CPU) from the digi9652, HDSP and HDSP9652 systems. this latter > > range is well supported and works exceedingly well on almost all > > systems. the digi96/8 has support, but it does not work particularly > > well, especially not for low latency work (this is not because of the > > driver design (other than the overall way that ALSA works), but because > > of the h/w design > I don't know enough to comment on h/w design or driver design, I just > know I've been able to use JACK with this driver at very low latencies > without X-Runs. > If I can help in providing specific info, let me know. :) And if there are any specific problems with the drivers, let me know as we have so many I'm sure management could be persuaded to let us spend some time testing, debugging and fixing stuff.
