[LAU] How to make Jack remember soundcards, not alsa-slots

[Paul Davis]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:41 PM, ailo <ailo.at at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/14/2010 06:19 PM, torbenh wrote:
>>
>> if you run jackd with a period size of 128... running alsa_out -d hw:1 -p
>> 128
>> should give you good results with jack>= 0.118
>
> I tried this, but was never able to get good sound from the alsa_out device.
> I put a lot of effort in making sure I used the right flags, but there would
> always be a stable periodic jitter.
>
> I tried this on two different systems: Puredyne (I compiled the latest
> stable jackdmp from source) and TangoStudio (which comes with jackd 0.118).
> Both on amd64, if that makes any difference.
>
> As reference, I am getting really good results using multiple devices on
> puredata using OSS. No broken sound at around 5 ms.

this isn't very useful info, mostly, because "usng OSS" on puredata
means that you're still using the same underlying drivers.
how do you tell Pd to use OSS for this ?