Subject: Re: [LAU] sound card "sync/distortion"

From: Peder Hedlund <peder@...> · Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 10:32 am

Quoting Atte André Jensen :
> Hi

quoted text>

> I have a toshiba laptop with a "HDA Intel" sound card and an Edirol USB

> ua-1a sound card.

>

> atte@vestbjerg:~$ lspci | grep -i audio

> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio

> Controller (rev 03)

> If I run jack through qjackctl, clients can often "mess up" jack esp

> when loading heavy stuff. This results in the sound becoming distorted

> in a metal-like way. A simple restart of jack seems to resolve this.
Are you running jack at 3 periods/buffer? The Intel cards seem to need

that to be happy.
- Peder

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