[LAU] JACK and Sound OpenFirmware?

[Len Ovens]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2020, Wim Taymans wrote:

> I have the same model here. It does not seem to like period sizes that
> are nice powers of 2. This works for me:
>
> jackd -d alsa -p 1032
>
> other period sizes that work: 120, 264, 504, 2040

All out by 8. The next question would be: does 136, 248, 520, 1016 and 
2056 work as well?

The next question after that, is which applications and plugins choke on 
non-power of two buffer sizes...

> On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 at 15:24, Mario Lang <mlang at blind.guru> wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> With kernel 5.7, my system finally switched over to snd_sof_pci for the
>> intenal card.  I can use mpv and alike via alsa directly, but
>> when I try to start JACK I always get the following message:
>>
>> ALSA: cannot set period size to 1024 frames for playback

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Len Ovens
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