Re: [Alsa-user] skipping with ice1712

2001-09-28 Thread Robert Voigt
On Friday 28 September 2001 18:58, you wrote: > Re: the video, some video card drivers actually hog the PCI > bus, they do some sort of illegal use of it that does not > release it appropriately for other cards to use. The result is > better video card "performance" at the expense of all other >

Re: [Alsa-user] skipping with ice1712

2001-09-28 Thread Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
> > I have a Delta Dio 2496 and alsa 0.9.0beta7. There are gaps in the sound > > when I switch between windows, but also when I watch movies with > > aviplayer. > > I have tried two computers. I'm running a 450mHz PIII, with new > IDE disks using DMA and multi sector read and all that hdparm can

Re: [Alsa-user] skipping with ice1712

2001-09-28 Thread Robert Voigt
On Friday 28 September 2001 01:10, you wrote: > > Don't forget that we're always using 10 channels (it's 5 times more than > > standard stereo cards). > > Oh, right. I forgot that the card works like that. Thanks for pointing > this out. There is a computer show near me on Saturday, so I guess

Re: [Alsa-user] skipping with ice1712

2001-09-27 Thread toby
> time for a 1Gig machine! I am guessing that CPU is the problem, as really > only two channels are going to, or comming from disk. So, is a faster > CPU all that I need to throw money at? Then again, I just remembered that my CPU usage is very low when recording or playing. I have heard that

Re: [Alsa-user] skipping with ice1712

2001-09-27 Thread toby
> Don't forget that we're always using 10 channels (it's 5 times more than > standard stereo cards). Oh, right. I forgot that the card works like that. Thanks for pointing this out. There is a computer show near me on Saturday, so I guess it's time for a 1Gig machine! I am guessing that CPU

Re: [Alsa-user] skipping with ice1712

2001-09-27 Thread Robert Voigt
On Thursday 27 September 2001 10:50, you wrote: > > players remotely. With latest ALSA cvs, it is *almost* perfect, but I > > get a dropout about once a minute or so. They are very short, but I > > can't use this card for recording until I can be certain that I will get > > a clean file. So, f

Re: [Alsa-user] skipping with ice1712

2001-09-27 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, toby wrote: > Robert Voigt wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I have a Delta Dio 2496 and alsa 0.9.0beta7. There are gaps in the sound when > > I switch between windows, but also when I watch movies with aviplayer. > > I'm glad to hear that I am not the only one that has this problem. >

Re: [Alsa-user] skipping with ice1712

2001-09-26 Thread toby
Robert Voigt wrote: > > Hi, > I have a Delta Dio 2496 and alsa 0.9.0beta7. There are gaps in the sound when > I switch between windows, but also when I watch movies with aviplayer. I'm glad to hear that I am not the only one that has this problem. I have a Midiman Delta44, and it has always giv

Re: [Alsa-user] skipping with ice1712

2001-09-25 Thread James Tappin
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 08:53, you wrote: > Hi, > I have a Delta Dio 2496 and alsa 0.9.0beta7. There are gaps in the sound > when I switch between windows, but also when I watch movies with aviplayer. Might be worth checking your hard disk settings, if the root disk is in a slow setting the

[Alsa-user] skipping with ice1712

2001-09-25 Thread Robert Voigt
Hi, I have a Delta Dio 2496 and alsa 0.9.0beta7. There are gaps in the sound when I switch between windows, but also when I watch movies with aviplayer. The OSS driver from 4Front Technologies had the same problem, but I could fix it by setting the variable envy24_nfrags=2 in a config file. It