On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Takashi Iwai wrote: > The card has still not tested enough with the latest driver. > Please give us any feedback for any problems/comments.
Not much to say yet. But I did get to mess around with the card a little bit last night. I need to get a new harddisk before I can do any serious work (I mostly work with video, and have too many uncompressed DV streams laying around). What I really need to do is find some ALSA native multitrack software and really go to town (can SoundTraker not do software mixing and send 8 seperate tracks to 8 seperate channels?) The first thing I noticed (even before when the driver wasn't loading). My BIOS desided to assign the sound card to the same interupt as my SCSI controller. Any time I am moving a lot of data to disk I get these errors: ALSA pcm_lib.c:116: Unexpected hw_pointer value (stream = 0, delta: -1, max jitter = 3276): wrong interrupt acknowledge? Is this because of the shared interupt? Is there anything the ALSA driver could do to avoid acknowledging the wrong interrupt? I know idealy the sound card and SCSI controller should be on seperate interupts, I'll work on convincing my BIOS to do that. The other problem I noticed was xruns (what is the exact defination of that?) when doing something silly like piping the output of cdparanoia straight into aplay. Probally shouldn't be doing that anyway, but just an observation. Oh, where do the names for the sliders in alsamixer come from? I have ADC, ADC1, ADC2, ... ADC7. Kinda fooled me for a second. ADC should really be ADC0, or ADC1 making ADC7 become ADC8. Same goes for the DACs. I couldn't get the envy24control program to compile, but that might just be my machine as my gtk stuff is pretty messed up right now (again need a new hard disk to fix it up right). I'm thinking it will probally give me a little better view of the card than alsamixer. amixer seems to have a lot of bits to frob, but I didn't get into the documemtation too much for it yet. All in all I'm impressed (and very happy). As I said I haven't heard this card in about a year (bought it for myself for Christmas last year and maybe used it for a week before I put a Matrox G400 in my machine and Windows refused to ever boot again). My basic setup has the EWS88MT's break out box mounted in a drive bay of my machine. The 8 analog ins and outs run by an insert snake over to an Alesis Studio 12R mixer. The 2 main outs on that run over to a pair of Alesis M1 Actives (they'd be the Mk1s). Anyway, it sounds beautiful (sorry going on like this, I'm just so jazzed that this is all working :). -Chris -- Two penguins were walking on an iceberg. The first penguin said to the second, "you look like you are wearing a tuxedo." The second penguin said, "I might be..." --David Lynch, Twin Peaks _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
