On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 07:19:44PM +0300, Sampo Savolainen wrote: > Hi, > > I have a brand new Dell D820 here which has worked very well, except for > jackd. But: I just found a way to get jackd running! (Thanks Paul) > > Use the -S switch for jackd's alsa driver to force the sound card to use > 16 bits instead of 32 bits. > > For example: > jackd -R -P80 -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p256 -n2 -S > > The "fix" is way far from optimal because of all the lost percision, but > as I'm going to use my multiface anyway (as soon as I get the interface > card) for serious work, I don't care. I believe that option only affects the precision of input and output to the card. If your card is 16-bit anyway, you haven't lost anything; it's just that for whatever reason, jackd was unable to automatically select 16 bit (which is what happens when I (rarely) run against my SB 128)). -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
