On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 08:45 -0800, Gabriel Beddingfield wrote: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Gabbe Nord <gabbe.nord@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hmm, alarming! I do use both USB keyboard and USB mouse. My soundcard is > > also USB. I do have alot of other devices plugged in aswell to my USB. Is > > there any way I can fix this, other then getting "real" plugs for the USB > > keyboard/mouse? Like I said, there's still a couple of devices that uses USB > > even if I get rid of the mouse/keyboard. > > USB devices are allowed to reserve bandwidth... and that affects every > device attached to the same USB hub. Now, you might say, "I don't use > a USB hub" -- but that's not true. Your PC has one or two USB hubs > that it uses internally. In my case, I had a USB audio device on the > same hub as a USB Webcam. Even when I wasn't using the Webcam, it was > reserving bandwidth. Thing would be running fine, then all the sudden > audio comes crashing down with an xrun. > > For me the PC had two internal hubs. I used a different USB port > (attached to the non-webcam-hub) and the problem was solved. > > I'm not saying this is your problem... but use something like 'sudo > lsusb -t' and inspect which devices are connected to which hubs. > Unplug as much as you can. Try different ports. Slot plates for using the USB ports provided by the mobo do cost around EUR 2 only. FWIW it's possible to unbind USB devices, assumed an unneeded port should share the IRQ with something that is important. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
