[LAU] Overwhelming number of xruns in Ubuntustudio

[J M Needham]

Aside, I've been battling with a TOshiba Satellite P200 with Intel HDA
soundcard. after working through many howto's and still getting incredible
numbers of xruns, I changed to 3 periods per buffer and now I have none.
Just thought someone might like to know...

On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Ricardo Lobo wrote:

> Hi people,
>
> Tried changing to 3 periods per buffer. I also tried the position_fix=1
> 2 and 3.
> Alas! The problem remains.
>
> Any ideias left?
>
> thanks,
>
> Lobo
>
> Sampo Savolainen wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 15:27 +0100, Ricardo Lobo wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Yes, the parameters are the same, I think they are the default ones:
> >>
> >> Frames / Period 1024
> >> Sample Rate 44100 Hz
> >> Perios Buffer 2
> >>
> >> My soundcard is a Conexant AC-Link Audio, I'm on a Hp dv5000 laptop.
> >>
> >
> > Is that a intel-hda card? If so, try 3 periods per buffer. It seems
> > those types of "soundcards"(*) don't work with anything else. You might
> > also benefit from a slightly smaller frames / period, like 512.
> >
> > The driver flags mentioned by Ivica Ico Bukvic (position_fix=1) is also
> > a good idea. My intel-hda "soundcard" only produces distortion without
> > it.
> >
> >
> >> I changed driver from ALSA to OSS in JACK and the xruns stopped, is
> >> this helpful to identify the problem?
> >>
> >
> > The alsa driver should be better in the performance sense. You should
> > try different options for jack until you get it right.
> >
> >
> >   Sampo
> >
> > (*) The intel-hda type interfaces have caused a lot of headache for
> > people using linux.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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