[LAU] which laptop?

[J M Needham]

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 <J.M.Needham at bath.ac.uk>:
>
> > 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
>
>