On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 14:38 -0400, I. E. Smith-Heisters wrote: > > > > > > Strange, Intel is no nice with OSS video drivers.. > > > > > > > I don't think the video driver has anything at all to do with this. > > Oh, no, I was referring, rather, to their OSS support of their 950 > video chipset; I would think their linux-friendliness would extend to > their audio chipsets. > Intel is fine. They wrote and released a perfectly good HDA driver. It's just that the vendors have a LOT of latitude to make small variations on the chipset and they don't help with ALSA drivers. It seems to work for many users but there are a lot of laptops that just get no sound or bad sound. > > > > Can you post the output of "dmesg" after trying JACK in realtime mode? > > > > Nothing in there. The following is exactly the same as it was before > trying to start jack. > > [17179691.824000] ACPI: Video Device [VID] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no) > [17179691.824000] ACPI: Video Device [VID2] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no) > [17179695.124000] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver > [17179695.352000] apm: BIOS not found. > [17179698.448000] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8 > [17179698.448000] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized > [17179698.452000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized > [17179698.452000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized > [17179698.452000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.7 > > I tried compiling the RT kernel (just running the default Ubuntu > PREEMPT right now), but ran into some problems, so I'll have to play > with it some more. Maybe you could recompile the standard Ubuntu kernel and enable ALSA debugging? Lee
