On 6 September 2012 at 10:01, "Len Ovens" <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > MB manufactures have not really built with audio use in mind > (or perhaps any RT use) except for the internal audio IF which > you will notice has the highest irq (which has the highest > priority on an OS that doesn't have secondary prioritizing like > Linux) And that it does not share it's irq with anything. And > they are not even looking for low latency. New MBs expect any > timing critical to be in the PCIe slots... They figure the old > PCI stuff was used to slow machines ... Still a good bios may > be able to change this. Maybe take one of the slots out of PNP > mode and assign a clear or almost clear irq (may have to be in > the 1-16 range) The MB may then work around that. Tell me about it. I have need for high channel counts. My drums alone really want 11 channels. I'm not hearing good things about trying to chain multiple high channel count firewire interfaces. I don't see any audio interfaces built for new PCI slots. That leaves me with legacy PCI, and MB manufacturers are leaving that by the wayside. Ugh. Again, thanks for the advise.... -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
