[LAU] Multiple ICE1712 cards setup with jack2

[mn0]

Am 01.02.2012 19:56, schrieb Joe Hartley:
> Hi, I've been using 2 Delta 1010s together for a while, I hope I can
> help a bit here.  I've tried to put most of what I've learned on the
> web at http://delta.brainiac.com/deltasync.html
> 
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:40:35 +0100 mn0 <mn0 at fukked-up.de> wrote:
>> I use Jack2, where can I find the exact version?
>> Only thing I know, it's jackdmp 1.9.7.
> 
> That should be fine, it's what I use as well.

compiled jack 1.9.8 yesterday - didn't help. Now back on 1.9.7.

>> The cards are hardware synced via S-PDIF.
>> In envy24control, a mixer program that knows about these features, hw:0
>> is set to internal clock and hw:1 is set to S-PDIF.
> 
> So far, so good.  I'll assume you're using a real S-PDIF cable and not
> just an audio RCA cable.

Yep.

>> a)use .asoundrc
>> I have a .asoundrc from the web.
>> After a few seconds, it crashes saying this:
>>
>> Unknown request 4294967295
>> Destination port in attempted (dis)connection of system:monitor_6 and
>> system:monitor_6 is not an input port
>> Unknown request 4294967295
>> Unknown request 0
>> Unknown request 0
>    [ snip ]
> 
> Using the .asoundrc file to combine the cards into one logical device is
> what I consider to be the "correct" way of doing this, so I'll focus on
> that.  Assumptions I'm making here:
> - the Deltas are the only 2 sound devices in the system.  This can be
>   verified by the command "cat /proc/asound/cards".  On my system, this 
>   is the output I see:
> 
> [jh at xtc ~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
>  0 [M1010          ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Delta 1010
>                       M Audio Delta 1010 at 0xdf80, irq 21
>  1 [M1010_1        ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Delta 1010
>                       M Audio Delta 1010 at 0xdf40, irq 20
> 
> If you have a motherboard that has an integrated sound chip, you might 
> find your zero device is not a Delta, which is a problem.  I had to disable
> my onboard sound card in my motherboard's BIOS settings.

Already is disabled.
> 
> - You have hw:0 and hw:1 identified correctly.  Unfortunately, sometimes
>   Linux has an issue with being able to consistently identify 2 identical
>   soundcards.  I've had this happen in the past and it gets annoying.  I
>   found it most liable to happen if I've made some other hardware change
>   to the machine, otherwise it's usually stable across reboots.  It's 
>   easily tested by using hw:0 to start jack and verifying that it
>   addresses the ports on the card you believe to be hw:0.

Already done. They're both recognized and I know which hardware card
belongs to which device (always wondering after some time, so I check
that, first).
> 
> - You've got the right cards set as master clock and S/PDIF slave and that
>   the correct ports on each are connected.  I've gotten this incorrect on
>   at least 2 occasions, so it's worth re-checking! 

Already checked, now re-checked, it's ok.


> - The 2 1010LT's are not sharing any IRQs with other devices.  "lsmod -v"
>   command will show you the IRQs of all the PCI devices.  The Deltas should
>   have IRQs all to themselves.  Here's my output edited to show just the
>   Deltas.  IRQs 20 and 21 are not shared with any other device.
> 

You mean "lspci -v". There seems to be a silly situation:

lspci -v | grep IRQ -B2 output(shortened to relevant IRQs):

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI
Controller #3 (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device 0c7e
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
--
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA IDE
Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
	Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device 0c7e
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
--
04:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712
[Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)
	Subsystem: VIA Technologies Inc. Device d63b
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
--
04:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712
[Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)
	Subsystem: VIA Technologies Inc. Device d63b
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18

So...SATA, USB and ICE1712 share one interrupt.
How can I change the interrupt of the devices, except by moving them to
another  slot? Though I'd really like to get rid of this, I can't
imagine, this is responsible for
Jack: JackGraphManager::AssertPort port_index = 4294967295
Looks like a dangling or uninitialized pointer to me.



> 02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)
>         Subsystem: VIA Technologies Inc. M-Audio Delta 1010
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
>         I/O ports at df80 [size=32]
>         I/O ports at dfa0 [size=16]
>         I/O ports at df60 [size=16]
>         I/O ports at df00 [size=64]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
>         Kernel driver in use: ICE1712
>         Kernel modules: snd-ice1712
> 
> 02:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)
>         Subsystem: VIA Technologies Inc. M-Audio Delta 1010
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
>         I/O ports at df40 [size=32]
>         I/O ports at ded0 [size=16]
>         I/O ports at dec0 [size=16]
>         I/O ports at de80 [size=64]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
>         Kernel driver in use: ICE1712
>         Kernel modules: snd-ice1712
> 
> If the hardware's setup is verified as OK, look at how you're starting 
> Jack.  You didn't post the command used to start jack, so I can't say if
> it's starting the way you expect.  If you use QJackCtl to start jack,
> the command that starts jack can be found by looking at the .jackdrc
> file.
I normally use QJackCtl, except for debugging this. QJackCtl froze and I
wasn't able to read the output. The command normally is:
/usr/bin/jackd -P89 -v -dalsa -r48000 -p256 -n4 -m -D -Cmulti_capture
-Pmulti_playback
but other frames/period, Priority etc. settings don't help.
I tried the settings from your page but without success.

> 
> Hope this helps, or at least gives you a starting point for troubleshooting.
Oh yes, I found the shared IRQs and I know for certain, it's possible to
use jack 1.9.7 with .asoundrc and two ICE1712.
Thank you!
/mn0