Subject: Re: [LAU] which laptop?

From: J M Needham <J.M.Needham@...> · Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 11:10 am

What driver parameters did you use? (and where did you put them :-)) Just

as I don't quite have the money for a soundcard at the moment.
God Bless

Jonty
On Wed, 28 May 2008, Sampo Savolainen wrote:
> Quoting J M Needham :

quoted text>

> > Intel-HDA I assume? Try 3 periods per buffer (obviously unlike every

> > other

> > card on the Earth and the moon). Works pretty well* with that on my

> > toshiba with Intel HDA. Although I am looking for a good firewire card at

> > the

> > moment. Doesn't work with any powers of 2 almost at all (managed to

> > start

> > it with 2ppb once with 64 ms latency)

>

> On my laptop (Dell D820), the card worked really well with a few driver

> parameters, 3 periods and certain mixer settings (=selecting an input source

> for capturing). Alas, this was with alsa 1.0.14 (or something). I'm

> currently unable to run jackd with a newer version of alsa.

>

> I'm not bothered by that though, it works well enough for youtube. I have a

> real sound interface for serious work. I have done interesting measurements

> with the card though. Like getting more noise on the inputs with mixer

> levels at 0 than with raising the mixer levels just a bit above it. That and

> the AD unit totally misbehaving when running in 192kHz.

>

>  Sampo

>

>
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