I've futzed around a bit more. I'd done this before, but I'd forgotten the exact results except that it didn't work. Tried all this both with and without RT and 16bit mode forced: upping frames/period to 4096 reduces the number of xruns to several/second. upping periods/buffer to 3 still gives xruns, as well as "usecs exceeds estimated spare time" messages. upping periods/buffer to 4 makes initialization fail with "ALSA: got smaller periods 2 than 4 for playback" putting it into non-duplex (ie. playback only) has no effect on behavior. So, yeah, that's why it's mysterious. In the past I sacrifice latency for no xruns, and everything's dandy. Not so, this time... Thanks for the suggestions. On 6/13/06, Christoph Eckert <ce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Try playback only. not full duplex. some of these cheapo soundcards > still have problems with duplex in 2006. Full duplex is part of the HDA specs. Best regards ce
